| Foreword |
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| General introduction: the modern pattern of marriage as an opportunity for grace |
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| introduction to volumes 1 and 2: a secular reality enters salvation in search of God's saving purpose |
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| Part 1 Marriage in the divine revelation of the Old Testament |
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| Introduction |
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| The Old Testament teaching on marriage |
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| Secular marriage as a gift of creation |
33 |
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| The thology of marriage in the account of creation |
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| The frank assertion of human sexuality and eroticism in the Song of Solomon |
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| Marriage as a means of revealing the community existing between Yahweh and Israel |
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| Preliminary theological observations |
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| The covenant of grace proclaimed by the Prophets in the image of marriage |
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| Was the day-to-day experience of marriage influenced by the prophetic marriage image? The Wisdom literature |
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| Secular marriage seen through the prism of the covenant of grace |
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| The perspective of salvation history: marriage and belief in the creation |
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| "I will make of you a great nation" marriage and the Christ who was to come |
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| Conclusion: salvation history as a marriage drama and marriage as a prophetic figure |
119 |
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| The Old Testament ethos of marriage |
127 |
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| Married love and founding a family |
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| Monogamy as the ideal to which Israel aspired |
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| The husband's right to divorce |
140 |
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| Mixed marriages in the Old Testament |
143 |
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| The Old Testament solemnisation of marriage |
147 |
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| Part 2 Marriage in the message of the New Testament |
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| Introduction |
155 |
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| The New Testament teaching on marriage |
158 |
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| Marriage and Christ's covenant of grace with the church |
159 |
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| The covenant with the heavenly Bridegroom at the second coming |
159 |
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| Christ's bridal relationship with the church on earth |
162 |
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| "This is a great mystery" (Eph. V. 32) |
164 |
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| "Love, as Christ loved the church" (Eph. v. 25) |
166 |
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| The rimacy of the vridal relationship with Christ, even in marriage itself |
174 |
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| "Unmarried for the kingdom of God" |
174 |
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| "Marrige in the Lord": the Christian secular life of marriage |
192 |
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| The New Testament moral teaching on marrigae |
203 |
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| The absolute indissolubility of marriage. The "becoming one" of man and wife and the community of faith |
203 |
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| Jesus' statement concerning the absolute indissolubility of marriage |
204 |
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| The "becoming one" of mand and wife and the community of faith |
221 |
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| Paul's opposition to "mixed marriage" |
241 |
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| The New Testament ethos of marriage and patterns of behaviour in the historical and social setting of the New Testament |
243 |
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| "The husband I the head of the wife": biblical assertion, or simply social pattern? |
243 |
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| The condemnation of porneia in all its forms - office and abstinence |
283 |
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| Conclusion to Part 2 |
289 |
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| Bibliograpgy |
292 |
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| Index of biblical refernces |
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Tác giả: Giuse Đỗ Xuân Vinh
Tác giả: Nhiều Tác Giả
