Reading: Lesson 14 - The Covenant of Marriage
The Covenant of Marriage
Our post-Christian world
Biblical vision of marriage is not ‘natural’
Return marriage to the church
Weddings as part of the church service
A practical theology of divorce
Sexual Union & Marriage
Free
Total
Faithful
Fruitful
Sexual Union as “Body Language”
A proper context – exchange of vows
An objective meaning – the spousal meaning of the body: “It is not just that sexual union belongs ‘in’ marriage. Rather, it is that sexual union—as God designed it—has an inherently marital meaning” (Christopher West, Theology of the Body for Beginners, 100).
Certain kinds of bodies: Male-female differentiation
New bodies: sex and the result of sex
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