![]() ![]() “According to the Bible,” Keller clarifies his position further, “God devised marriage to reflect his saving love for us in Christ, to refine our character, to create stable human community for the birth and nurture of children, and to accomplish all this by bringing the complementary sexes into an enduring whole-life union. A Christian definition of marriageĪllow us a disclaimer from the outset: based “on a straightforward reading of biblical texts,” Timothy Keller’s “The Meaning of Marriage” examines “the Christian understanding of marriage.” In other words, whenever we mention the word “marriage” below, we’ll be talking about, in the words of the author, “a lifelong, monogamous relationship between a man and a woman” – which is “the unanimous view” of marriage among all biblical authors. ![]() So, get ready to reinvent the relationship with your spouse and prepare to transform it, so it is in line with some ostensibly divine precepts and teachings. If you are a Christian and think that marriage is best defined in the Bible and is about the presence of God among people, then you’ll find this book to your taste. In fact, it explicitly excludes members of the LGBT+ community by the very definition of marriage it proposes in the book’s introduction. Presented as a book for married and unmarried people – but also a book about the Bible – “The Meaning of Marriage” by American Christian pastor Timothy Keller (co-authored with his wife, Kathy) is primarily aimed at Christian believers, whatever their relationship status might be.
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