Hello
Can anyone help me with how to answering this 6 marker question:
"Explain ethical teaching in Islam" for Sexual Ethics?
What do I include in the response and how should I structure it?
Also,
Does anyone have any notes on marriage ceremony for Christianity for individual and community? and how would I integrate it in an essay? Like what are the three significant points that I could use while also stating the issue of same-sex marriage in australia???
THANK YOU
Hi!
For Christian marriage these are the notes I had:
MARRIAGE IS SYMBOLIC OF THE IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTIAN LOVE
- Faithful and everlasting.
- Love within marriage reflects Christ’s unconditional love.
- The community play an important role in supporting the couple’s love.
- The couple’s challenges in the vows: “in sickness and health, comfort and trouble.”
- The community, as symbolised in the Maid of Honour and Best Man help the couple through these challenges.
THE MARRIED STATE IS A REFLECTION OF THE IMAGE OF GOD
- Marriage involves the union of man and woman created in God’s image, to later be “fruitful and multiply.”
- The institution of marriage was described at the beginning of the Bible and therefore in marriage, man and woman created in God’s image become “one flesh.”
• Can link to Principal Belief of Revelation as God reveals himself through the couple and their unconditional love for one another.
MARRIAGE EXPRESSES THE BELIEF IN THE COVENANT WITH JESUS
- Man and woman pledge their lives to one another until “death do us part.”
- This is achieved through the acts of kindness and mutual love the two share.
- In order to keep the Covenant that marriage represents, the couple stay faithful to each other.
- Catholic Church places particular emphasis on the presence of the Covenant within marriage through the Nuptial Mass.
- Immerses the couple and witnesses to Christ’s covenantal promise in the Eucharist.
MARRIAGE REFLECTS THE LOVE BEWTEEN CHRIST AND THE CHURCH
- Love between man and wife expresses selfless love of Christ in Death and Resurrection.
- Marriage ceremonies in the Orthodox Church reflect the everlasting love Christ has for the Church as the couple build the Kingdom of God through the love and service they offer each other. (The Ritual Crowning)
• Can link to Principal Belief in Death and Resurrection.
MARRIAGE COMES WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY OF FAMILY
- Couples called to procreate.
- Display Christ’s unconditional love within their own family.
- Bring up their family as to enrich to the social and religious life of the community.
If you are looking to discuss same-sex marriage, perhaps look into disagreements about the nature of Christian live. The last point about the responsibility of family/procreation could be a point against by some churches while reflection of image of God/importance of love could be used by progressive churches as a point for?
As for sexual ethics, I didn't do Islam but generally structure wise, it depends how many marks.
If it is 4 marks - I pick two issues to discuss and just explore the differing stances on the issue, using biblical and other references. If it is more than that, try do 3 different sexual ethics issues. Also, it's great during the paragraphs to make clear the distinctions between the different strands of Islam in your case (if there are strands) - so this is another way you can structure it.
Hope that helped