Naslov
From Biblical Law to the Country's Blessed Constitution (Reflections on Croatian Referendum on Marriage)

Autori
Savić, Vanja-Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Religion and Non-Religion in Contemporary Societies (Theoretical, empirical and Methodological Challenges for Research in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond) / - , 2016, 57-58

Skup
ISORECEA Meeting

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 21.04.2016. - 24.04.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
Biblical Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Theory, Croatia, Referendum

Sažetak
It seems that we are living in a world which tends to change its traditional concept of family and relationships between sexes. But that is not the case for everyone. It might look that traditional concepts of family are losing its battle against post-modern concepts which tend to dismantle nuclear concepts of family life. On contrary, there are pockets of traditionalist revival: in those places more conservative approach seems to wins as more modern and wanted. Croatian referendum case, the most unique socio-legal and political event in modern European legal history shows exactly that: citizens of Croatia have changed fundamental document of the Nation by inserting the norm which defines marriage as a union between man and woman. Three largest World’s monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam do not widely accept homosexual relationships and marriages not just for moral reasons, but since those do not fit into Creator’s plans for preserving the mankind trough procreation. Major doctrinal ‘issue’ is that those rules cannot be changed even if one would like to change it: those rules are of God himself therefore are unchangeable. This article explains the roots for the justifications that marriage belongs only to man and woman, by looking at the sources form the Old Testament and Torah in the first place. Related texts of Leviticus 18 and Genesis 22 will be compared and confronted with attitudes of American philosopher Brian Leiter and Australian feminist Emily McAvan to prove that marriage has its religious and moral dimension even in secular and post-secular society. By connecting Abraham’s faith and obedience to procreation of all Nations, we can see Isaac as image of God’s request for faith and loyalty. He becomes ache-image of all fathers and mothers which would be able to be stars and beams of dust in God’s plan for humankind. This will become a ‘cultural’ conceptfor millions who will follow in the centuries to come. That concept will be a corner stone of society even in the secular or post-secular times we are living today.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo, Sociologija, Filozofija, Religijske znanosti (interdisciplinarno polje)

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