Love Matters – an introduction and response
Posted on May 12, 2023
Filed under Church of England
Martin Davie in the UK responds to the publication of Love Matters,
“Love Matters is the final report of the Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households. The purpose of the report is summarised in the following words from its first chapter:
‘In a time of immense uncertainty in everyday life two key questions need to be urgently addressed:
1. How can we best support every individual and every family to flourish in our complex and ever-changing society?
2. What kind of society do we want to live in?
These challenging questions are at the heart of the Commission on Families and Households, established by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in Spring 2021. …
The first thing that has to be said is that there is much that is good in this report …”
– however he identifies four areas of concern:
- the report plays down the importance of marriage.
- the report plays down the moral seriousness of divorce.
- the report is oddly silent about abortion.
- most fundamentally, the report is silent about the centrality of God for human flourishing.
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