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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