“The Two Shall Become One”: The Special Creation of Adam and Eve as the Foundation of the Church’s Teaching on Holy Marriage

A Seminar Sponsored by the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation

Presenter: Hugh Owen, Director of the Kolbe Center

• What light do Scripture, Tradition, and authoritative Magisterial teachings of the past shed on the origins of Man and Holy Marriage?
• How does sound natural science judge the hypothesis of human evolution?
• How do the answers to these questions relate to the current crisis of faith and morals? Bring your questions, find the answers!

"The true origin of marriage, venerable brothers, is well known to all . . .We record what is to all known, and cannot be doubted by any, that God, on the sixth day of creation, having made man from the slime of the earth, and having breathed into his face the breath of life, gave him a companion, whom He miraculously took from the side of Adam when he was locked in sleep . . . And this union of man and woman . . . even from the beginning manifested chiefly two most excellent properties . . . namely, unity and perpetuity" (emphasis added) (Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum, 5)