FAMILY AS A SOVEREIGN ENTITY AND DOMESTIC CHURCH

This book, offered to the Reader, aims to deepen knowledge about the family as an institution whose prosperity translates into the happiness of the individual and the entire community. This publication presents the family as a sovereign entity and a domestic Church, fitting into the current of contemporary legal thought of the Universal Church and the Church in Poland. It contains six chapters devoted to fundamental problems and issues concerning various aspects of this basic cell of social life, which grows on the basis of marriage, elevated by Jesus Christ to sacramental dignity.

• In-depth analysis of the role of the family in society.
• Contemporary view of the family in the context of church law.
• Reflections on the idea of the domestic Church.
• Examination of factors influencing the future of the family in Poland.
• Attempt to answer the question of strengthening positive trends in the family.
• Help in understanding the mission of the family in the Church and in the world.
• Encouragement to protect the family from contemporary threats.

The authors express the hope that this work will contribute to a deeper look at the institution of the family and its mission in the Church and in the world, and will also encourage taking measures to protect it from contemporary threats. This book is the result of research focused on the exemplary idea of the domestic Church, taking into account the truth about the family as a natural connection, original in relation to the state or any other community. These studies fully confirm the hypothesis about the paradigmatic role of the mentioned idea in the search for ways and means for effective protection/promotion of the family and its inalienable rights.

This publication is a valuable source of knowledge for all those interested in the topics of family, church law and the role of the Church in social life. The analyses and reflections contained in it can be an inspiration to take actions to protect and promote the family as the basic cell of society. The authors, based on the contemporary legal thought of the Universal Church and the Church in Poland, present a comprehensive view of the family, taking into account its sovereignty and importance as a domestic Church.

The Publishing House of the University of Silesia offers the Reader a publication that is intended to deepen knowledge about the family as an institution whose prosperity brings with it the happiness of the individual and the human and Christian community. This book, situated in the current of contemporary legal thought of the Universal Church and the Church in Poland, contains six chapters devoted to fundamental problems and issues concerning various aspects of this basic cell of social life, growing on the basis of marriage, which Jesus Christ raised to sacramental dignity.