Współczesna rodzina między sacrum a profanum

Abstract

Family and marriage, which should be considered as the very basic institutions of every human society, are going through a crisis. It is primarily cultural in nature and it is caused by a variety of changes – economic, legal, psychological, social, ethical, religious, etc. The crisis constitutes a manifestation of replacing the institutional model of a family by the personal one. It is based on a fallacious concept of families that prefer individualism and consumerist growth. The article presents an attempt to break the crisis by implementing the conciliar vision of marriage and family founded on an intimate community of life and love, fidelity, humanization of sexuality and fertility understood as a dynamism of interpersonal love.