John MacArthur has taken the “Innocent Party View” of divorce and remarriage throughout his writing career. This 2009 book is no different. He says, “In God’s sight, the bond between a husband and wife is dissolved only by death (Romans 7:2), adultery (Mathew 19:9), and an unbeliever’s leaving (1 Corinthians 7:15)” (p. 81). This book […]
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Preparing Children for Marriage
Mulvihill has written a lot on grandparenting and parenting. This is a new addition to his list of subjects in that genre, but a welcome addition for young parents. The book is divided into four parts: 1) Getting Started; which is starting your children out very young understanding biblical principles of relationships. 2) Marriage; seven […]
Marriage Divorce and Remarriage
I have enjoyed books on the family from Jim Newheiser. This is the first I’ve read him on divorce. It was first published in 2017 and again in 2020 so it is fairly recent compared to many writings on the subject. The advantage to that is that he deals with other popular authors pretty thoroughly. […]
Divorce and Remarriage
In this small book (about 100 pages, published in 2021) Wayne Grudem gives a lot of up-to-date information on the problems, various views, and New Testament teaching on divorce. In the rather lengthy introduction he includes helpful current statistics on the causes and effects of divorce within the family. Especially helpful here is the effect […]
Marriage and the Family
Andreas Köstenberger has written a number of books recently on the family. This one (2012) was written with David W. Jones but is essentially Köstenberger’s. It is a good synopsis of his other writings in that it is only about 175 pages and contains shorter chapters written for the layman and parents. The chapters include […]
Married for God
This is a follow-up book to be read after Christopher Ash wrote (2003) Marriage–Sex in the Service of God. In this book (2016) he uses that older title as a theme. That first book is almost 400 pages and is much more detailed. This book is only about 170 pages of text and is easier […]
Marriage: Sex in the service of God
I came across Christopher Ash in other books on marriage that mentioned him and this book. The title should not be misleading. Ash is concerned with fidelity to the marriage covenant, or I should say, with the lack of fidelity today. This is a 2003 book so it doesn’t see the further breakdown of marriage […]
Divorce and Remarriage: Four Christian V...
This is a 1990 “Spectrum Multiview” book by IVP Academic. H. Wayne House is the editor and there are four views of divorce and remarriage presented, each with a rebuttal by the other three writers. The four views are: 1) No divorce, no remarriage, written by J. Carl Laney. 2) Divorce, but no remarriage, written […]
Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Wom...
It was in 1991 that Wayne Grudem and John Piper edited Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. The current work, edited only by Grudem, written in 2002, was originally addresses done at a conference in Dallas, TX. The major messages in the book are done by Grudem and Bruce Ware with single chapters by five other […]
50 Crucial Questions
In 1991, John Piper and Wayne Grudem published Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. This smaller booklet (2016) is basically chapter 2 of that book. However, this book gives concise and quick answers to many vital questions of today. The authors are complementarians, believe in male headship in the family and the church, denounce homosexuality as a […]