New approaches to marriage preparation in the 1983 Code of Canon law [Elektronische Ressource] : challenges to the particular church in Ghana / Peter Kwame Amevor

New Approaches to Marriage Preparation in the 1983 Code of Canon law. Challenges to the Particular Church in Ghana Inaugural – Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der katholisch-theologischen Fakultät der Universität Regensburg Vorgelegt von Peter Kwame Amevor aus Ghana Regensburg 2009 Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Sabine Demel Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Heinz-Günther Schöttler Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………....4 Chapter I The marriage Institution: Anthropological and Christian synopsis……………………... 9 1. The Anthropological theories of marriage…………………………………………………. 9 1.1 The theory of promiscuity……………………………………………………………... 12 1.2 “Theory of machoism” as the probable origin of marriage……………………………. 15 1.3 Woman purchase as a mode of obtaining a wife............................................................ 18 1.4 Theory of Pair marriage….……………………………………………………………. 20 1.5 Primitive race and marriage preparation………………………………………………. 23 2.