A Igreja e a poligamia

: implicações morais e pastorais na cultura bantu

Abstract

The present work is the result of a study on the meaning of the sacrament of marriage amongst black-africans, that is, in the Bantu culture “devastated” by the proliferation of cases of polygamy. Our reflection seeks to look at the moral and pastoral implications of this distortion of Bantu cultural marriage, which is a sin in which many christian black-africans spouses are “caught up in” and find it difficult, and in many cases resistance, to accept the truly and authentic marriage as a sacramental, willed by God: singular union, indissoluble unity, and fruitful.It is not enough for us to contextualize the problem. Our study is based on the presentation of authentic christian marriage, reflected in the Sacred Scriptures, in the Sacred Tradition and in the Magisterium of the Church, through its different documents that have served us as a source of investigation; as well as the different authors (theologians and others) who present the centrality of love as the source of human spousal and conjugal love that finds in the spousal relationship of Christ-husband of the Church-spouse, the foundation of conjugal fidelity which is a response to the conditions of sacrament of marriage which is contrary to polygamy.

Date of Award	7 Oct 2022
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Jorge Cunha (Supervisor)