DO JUDAÍSMO AO CRISTIANISMO

UMA LEITURA ANTROPOLÓGICA SOBRE RELAÇÕES PRÉ-MATRIMONIAIS

Abstract

We live in a time of great liberalism, where everything, or practically everything is allowed or possible to be done, not taking into consideration values and principles that our ancestors had as a fundamental pillar. Starting from this context, we propose a very brief study about the premarital relationships of the Semitic people (Israel of the Old Testament) and Christianity, emphasizing Catholicism. We listed the structuring and the way premarital relationships were constituted in the Old Testament and their contribution to the understanding and organization of these relationships for Christianity, contemplating the position of the Catholic Church on premarital relationships, the courtship period as an opportunity for mutual knowledge, and engagement as preparation for marriage; pastoral challenges such as the postponement of marriage, as well as the increasingly early sexual initiation of young adolescents and the need for pastoral accompaniment of young people so that they can discern the vocation of marriage in order to form a family. For this analysis we drew on the literature of theologians, the documents of the Catholic Church, the biblical foundation, in addition to contributions of Pope Francis Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Lætitia.