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 |
27 |
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The Old Testament teaching on marriage |
33 |
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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 |
33 |
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The frank assertion of human sexuality and eroticism in the Song of Solomon |
55 |
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Marriage as a means of revealing the community existing between Yahweh and Israel |
60 |
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Preliminary theological observations |
60 |
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The covenant of grace proclaimed by the Prophets in the image of marriage |
65 |
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Was the day-to-day experience of marriage influenced by the prophetic marriage image? The Wisdom literature |
88 |
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Secular marriage seen through the prism of the covenant of grace |
102 |
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The perspective of salvation history: marriage and belief in the creation |
109 |
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"I will make of you a great nation" marriage and the Christ who was to come |
113 |
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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 |
130 |
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Monogamy as the ideal to which Israel aspired |
136 |
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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 |
299 |
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