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Conjugal love refers to love in a conjugal relationship, that is, in a marriage, since the word "conjugal" is defined as related to the relationship between married partners. [ 1 ] Marriage does not necessarily involve love between the partners.
Ecclesiastical courts were increasingly becoming a venue for couples to resolve marital disputes in the 11th and 12th centuries. It thus became important for the church to further consolidate and solidify canon law, so the courts could resolve the numerous cases.
Emanuel Swedenborg coined the term "conjugial" (rather than the more usual adjective in reference to marital union, "conjugal" [70] [71]) to describe the special love experienced by married partners. [ 72 ] [ 71 ] When a husband and wife work together to build their marriage on earth, that marriage continues after the deaths of their bodies and ...
Swedenborg himself remained a bachelor all his life, but that did not hinder him from writing voluminously on the subject. His work on Marriage Love (Conjugial Love [g] in older translations) (1768) was dedicated to this purpose. [118] A central question with regard to marriage is whether it stops at death or continues into heaven.
See Chapter on “Marriage in Heaven” in Heaven and Hell [30] and Swedenborg’s book on the topic, Marriage Love (Conjugial Love in older translations). [31] The spiritual conjunction of husband and wife that is the basis of true marriage in this world and the next is explained in Heaven and Hell # 366ff. and Marriage Love #156ff.
Married love is founded in religion, since both originate from God. Without a religious foundation, a marriage can turn cold. [95] According to the New Church, man is a form of truth and woman is a form of love; the two make one. Married love comes directly from heaven, and celibacy interferes with this. [96]
The following doctrine can be drawn from and verified by these works. Among these works are True Christian Religion, Heaven and Hell, Conjugial Love, The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine, Heavenly Secrets, The Doctrine of the Lord, and many more. In these works the doctrine of The New Church is defined.
A couple following their marriage in the Manti Utah Temple. Celestial marriage (also called the New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage, Eternal Marriage, Temple Marriage) is a doctrine that marriage can last forever in heaven that is taught in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and branches of Mormon fundamentalism.