Sex, Marriage And Family In World Religions - Plot & Excerpts
But when they come together because of incontinence, with the good of offspring lacking, even though marital faithfulness is preserved, the intercourse is not thus excused so that it bears no blame, but the fault is venial. Whence Augustine wrote in his book, On the Good of Marriage: “Marital intercourse for the sake of procreation has no guilt, however, marital intercourse for the sake of satisfying concupiscence, even though with one’s spouse, on account of the faithfulness of the marriage bed, has venial guilt.” Likewise: “The fact that married people, conquered by lust, use each other beyond what is necessary for procreating children, I count among those things for which we say each day: ‘forgive us our trespasses.’” [Translated in Love, Marriage, and Family in the Middle Ages: A Reader, ed. and trans. Jacqueline Murray (Peterborough: Broadview, 2001), pp. 171–176] 114 l u k e t i m o t h y j o h n s o n a n d m a r k d . j o r d a n THE FOURTH LATERAN COUNCIL The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) is counted by Roman Catholics an ecu-menical or churchwide council (and the fourth held at the Lateran Palace in Rome).
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