Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters

by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George

Book Overview

This book defends the conjugal view of marriage. Patrick Lee and Robert P. George argue that marriage is a distinctive type of community: the union of a man and a woman who have committed to sharing their lives on every level of their beings (bodily, emotionally, and spiritually) in the kind of union that would be fulfilled by conceiving and rearing children together. The comprehensive nature of this union, and its intrinsic orientation to procreation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107670551
• ISBN13: 9781107670556
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"