“Divorce and Remarriage: A Permanence View is a clear, concise and Scriptural presentation on the subject of divorce and remarriage. The book reflects careful biblical exegesis wedded with a practical and pastoral concern for the personal lives of people struggling with these issues. In considering the various perspectives on divorce and remarriage, this is a book that careful students of Scripture should not overlook.”
J. Carl Laney, Th.D. (Professor of Biblical Literature, Western Seminary [
“A Biblical Theology of marriage is viewed as superfluous in our culture and is often ignored and violated in church practice as well. Wingerd, Elliff, Chrisman, and Burchett have written a clear, well-organized and precise work that is embracive and engaging as it establishes the permanence view of marriage. No matter what position one presently holds, this book provides excellent exegetical and theological information and challenge. The authors have developed both cogent and compelling converging lines of evidence in support of their thesis. The book deserves wide distribution and reading in the community of the redeemed. It surely belongs in every library collection and every pastor’s study.”
James M. Grier, Th.D. (Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Theology at
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2 comments:
I have become convinced! Now let me ask Sirs. What happens to the person who spouse leaves, remarries have children and then wants to come back because they felt that they were currently in an adulterous relationship? Or maybe how remarries mutliple times may have multiple children but feels that they have all been false and adulturous and now wants to fix it by remarrying the original spouse?
First of all, the person who has divorced and remarried is not in “an adulterous relationship.” He or she committed an act of adultery when the remarriage occurred, but as we explain in the book there is no reason to believe the second marriage is an ongoing series of adulterous acts (see scenarios 10 and 11 on pages 108-112).
Secondly, the person who has remarried cannot go back and make things right with respect to former marriages without committing additional sins. Divorcing a current spouse in order to return to a former spouse would be just as sinful as the first divorce and remarriage. The sins of divorce and remarriage create complex relational and emotional entanglements that cannot always be untangled. What seems right to us needs to be carefully weighed against what God clearly calls wrong. The person in this situation needs to repent of any former sins, refrain from committing additional sins, and cherish his or her current marriage and family as gifts from a gracious God.
The former spouse who was deserted by a person who ahs now remarried should resolve to remain single, trusting God for every need. He or she will likely suffer much hardship due to the former spouse's sin, but remarrying while the former spouse is living is an act of adultery and should not be considered.
Daryl Wingerd (for the other authors)
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