Marriage-Liberal-Divorce
Multiple grounds for divorce beyond adultery and desertion — the broader Erasmian-Reformed reading not adopted by Westminster.
This is a contested or rejected alternative.
The Westminster baseline on Oaths & Marriage is Oaths-Lawful-Serious; Divorce-Adultery-Or-Desertion. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.
Cruxes on this attribute
The Assembly navigated 2 cruxes that bear directly on Oaths & Marriage.
Other positions on Oaths & Marriage
Oaths-Lawful-Serious; Divorce-Adultery-Or-Desertion WCF
Lawful oaths are a part of religious worship when warranted by truth, judgment and seriousness (WCF XXII.1–7); marriage between one man and one woman, indissoluble except by adultery or willful desertion (XXIV.1, 5–6).
Oaths-Forbidden-Altogether
Christ's words 'Swear not at all' (Matthew 5:34) forbid all oaths — the Quaker position rejected by XXII.1.
Marriage-No-Divorce
Marriage is wholly indissoluble; even adultery does not warrant remarriage — a stricter Catholic position rejected by XXIV.5.