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The claim that marriage is a path to holiness at first seems striking only for its banality. What Christian after Vatican II would question that is so? And yet David Crawford in this study uncovers the ambiguity harbored in such a claim. To be sure, each of the spouses is called to the way of perfection found in the sequela Christi; but is each so called only as an individual, or is the marriage state as such a way of perfection? Crawford argues that the dominant trends in neither preconcilair nor postconciliar trought enable us consistently to defend an interior relationship between marriage as such and the following of Christ. He finds the key to realizing this interior relationship of "nature and grace". Important for Crawford is de Lubac's notion of "paradox", whereby the fundamental desire of human nature is instrinsically oriented to othercenterdness - and as such is already nuptial in character. Thus the desire of human fulfillment that is basic to "nature" carries an innate dynamic for self-emptyng, a paradox embodied in marriage and consecrates virginity in distinst but "circumincessive" ways.

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