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Foreword
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xiii
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General
introduction: the modern pattern of marriage as an opportunity for grace
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1
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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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21
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Part 1
Marriage in the divine revelation of the Old Testament
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Introduction
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27
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The Old
Testament teaching on marriage
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33
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Secular
marriage as a gift of creation
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33
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The thology
of marriage in the account of creation
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33
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The frank
assertion of human sexuality and eroticism in the Song of Solomon
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55
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Marriage as a
means of revealing the community existing between Yahweh and Israel
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60
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Preliminary
theological observations
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60
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The covenant
of grace proclaimed by the Prophets in the image of marriage
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65
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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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88
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Secular
marriage seen through the prism of the covenant of grace
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102
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The
perspective of salvation history: marriage and belief in the creation
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109
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"I will
make of you a great nation" marriage and the Christ who was to come
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113
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Conclusion:
salvation history as a marriage drama and marriage as a prophetic figure
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119
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The Old
Testament ethos of marriage
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127
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Married love
and founding a family
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130
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Monogamy as
the ideal to which Israel aspired
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136
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The husband's
right to divorce
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140
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Mixed
marriages in the Old Testament
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143
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The Old
Testament solemnisation of marriage
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147
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Part 2
Marriage in the message of the New Testament
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Introduction
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155
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The New
Testament teaching on marriage
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158
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Marriage and
Christ's covenant of grace with the church
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159
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The covenant
with the heavenly Bridegroom at the second coming
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159
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Christ's
bridal relationship with the church on earth
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162
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"This is
a great mystery" (Eph. V. 32)
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164
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"Love,
as Christ loved the church" (Eph. v. 25)
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166
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The rimacy of
the vridal relationship with Christ, even in marriage itself
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174
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"Unmarried
for the kingdom of God"
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174
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"Marrige
in the Lord": the Christian secular life of marriage
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192
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The New
Testament moral teaching on marrigae
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203
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The absolute
indissolubility of marriage. The "becoming one" of man and wife and
the community of faith
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203
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Jesus'
statement concerning the absolute indissolubility of marriage
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204
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The
"becoming one" of mand and wife and the community of faith
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221
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Paul's
opposition to "mixed marriage"
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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
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243
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"The
husband I the head of the wife": biblical assertion, or simply social
pattern?
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243
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The
condemnation of porneia in all its forms - office and abstinence
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283
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Conclusion to
Part 2
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289
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Bibliograpgy
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292
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Index of
biblical refernces
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299
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