A bondade do matrimónio segundo Santo Agostinho

: leitura do tratado de bono coniugali

Abstract

The present dissertation, developed as part of the Integrated Masters degree in Theology (MIT), has the scope of bringing to nowadays the doctrine of Saint Augustin regarding matrimony, specifically in regards of his treatise De bono coniugali where the bishop of Hippo synthesizes his thought on the subject matter. In the referred work, Augustin gives us a defense of the values of matrimony in the midst of a personal and sociocultural environment not very
welcoming to it. For this reason, we decided to find in this Church Father solid guidelines to propose anew for us today theological reasoning for the goodness and excellency of matrimony, which is again highly disregarded. In order to do so, after an essential contextual analysis of the author and his work, we focused in De bono coniugali trying to extract the fundamental ideas of Augustine’s theology regarding matrimony, which had such a great impact in the subsequent
doctrines in moral and theology.

Date of Award	17 Jan 2018
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Isidro Lamelas (Supervisor)