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Old 9th October 2009, 08:16 PM
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Remarriage in the Early Canons

I probably don't have the time to devote to this discussion as I should but I was hoping that I could get the imput of some of the people here and perhaps y'all can argue it out for me. Plus it's been kind of dead in here so hopefully this will liven things up a little

I had a priest tell me yesterday that in the early canons of the Church it said that one could be married up to 3 times but never a fourth and therefore divorce was allowed up to twice.

I was under the impression that such canons were actually in place in order to keep a widow from getting married to a fourth husband and thus actually make remarriage more difficult not in order to allow divorce and remarriage.

I know that the Orthodox Church has allowed divorce because of infidelity for a while now and that it has even begun in some places to allow it for other reasons. I also want to say that in Anglican communions and some independent Catholic/Orthodox/etc. churches divorce and remarriage is common place.

I was wondering if there is any true historical basis for this. That is I'm looking for an argument purely from Tradition here not one concering how hard it is for some people to stay married etc., unless that it directly relevant to some aplication of οικονόμια which does have historical backing.

So anyway what do y'all think?
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Old 31st October 2009, 03:29 PM
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This should prove to be helpful:

DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE (This Rock: December 1997)

Contains quotes from the Early Church Fathers.
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