The Upbringing of Offspring in Mixed Marriages in a Historical Perspective


Abstract

The concern for the upbringing of children in the marriages of Christians with followers of other religions or pagans, and then Catholics with non-Catholics, was from the very beginning a concern of the church community. This issue is discussed in the present article, in which the author focuses his attention on foundations of the regulations rather than on their legal aspect. The conducted analyses indicate that there has been a significant shift from the objective protection of faith to the subjective expression  of the personal character of the marriage relationship and the related rights and obligations resulting from the free-given grace of belonging to Christ.


Keywords

mixed marriages; parents; offspring; upbringing; rights; obligations

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Tomasz Robert Gałkowski  tgal@poczta.onet.pl
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw  Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9166-9516




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