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Sacred Marriage
What if God designed marriage to make you holy instead of happy? What if your relationship isn't as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God? In Sacred Marriage, bestselling author Gary Thomas uncovers the ways that your marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with God and with each other. Join over one million others who have already uncovered Thomas's tips for fostering a sacred marriage. Within the pages of Sacred Marriage, Thomas invites you to see how God can use your relationship with your spouse as a discipline and a motivation to love God more and reflect more of the character of his Son. In addition to life-changing insights from Scripture, church history, an...
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Marriage After Modernity
Most Christians hold marriage to be a sacrament, created and uniquely blessed by God. Yet, the theology of marriage rarely matches its actual experience. Marriage is too often discovered to be a violent, loveless institution, and increasingly it is delayed, avoided, and terminated.
The Poetics of Intimacy and the Problem of Sexual Abstinence
This bold work asks whether traditional Christian sexual morality, with its emphasis on sexual abstinence outside of heterosexual marriage, is harmful. Appealing to sociological studies, anthropological theories, and contemporary theological ethics, Hartwig develops a model of sexual virtue around the concept of a poetics of intimacy and applies this model to particular challenges faced by the divorced, married couples, gay men and lesbians, single adults, and people with mental and developmental disabilities. He concludes that mandated long-term and lifelong sexual abstinence for those outside heterosexual marriage is not only harmful, but compromises many features of Christian morality.
The Sacraments
What are the sacraments, really? For centuries, the religious lives of Catholics and other Christians have revolved around church rituals with generally accepted individual and social effects. What, precisely, are those effects, and how are they produced? Traditional theology used Greek philosophy to understand the sacraments and how they work. But is there no other way to understand them? In fact, there are a number of ways, and this book invites you to look at the sacraments through a variety of lenses: psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, theology, morality, and spirituality. As the introduction to this volume challenges, "If you read this book, and especially if you engage in the interactive study to which it invites you, your understanding of sacraments will be changed forever." To help personalize your investigation, the author has created a web site with thought-provoking questions that encourage you to interact with the ideas being proposed in this volume. To engage these topics more deeply, see www.TheSacraments.org.
Conjugal Spirituality
Mary Anne Oliver develops an alternate to 'celibate' religious practices, drawing from the experience of couples and diverse sources in the Christian tradition. This work explores the dynamics of conjugal love.
Sweet Surrender
Every culture has a way of perceiving and practicing marriage. Many contemporary Western Christians mistake what their culture prescribes regarding marriage with what the Bible portrays, and thereby take as biblical what is merely cultural. Uncritical conformity to cultural imperatives of marriage then becomes a Christian virtue, and a sweet surrender. Few recognize, much less question this confusion, even when its consequences are unhealthy. In Sweet Surrender Dennis Hiebert challenges Christians to comprehend what is cultural in their view of marriage, hold as optional what is not explicitly required by the Bible, and live out their marriages within the transcendent grace of God. Gaining greater awareness can free marriages from the control of culture for something more simply but deeply Christian. Marriages benefit when they are released from cultural directives that are not biblical callings, even if they choose to retain them as cultural practices. This book is for Christians who are ready to rethink their assumptions about marriage.
Marriage Rebranded
It didn’t take long for Tyler to realize he had no idea how to be married. When Tyler and Analee got married, they read marriage books, learned about each other’s personality and habits, and exhausted three-step relational formulas. Yet a year and a half after their wedding, they had fallen into a pattern of fighting and unhappiness. Tyler knew that he and his wife needed more than formulas and counseling sessions. They needed a vision for marriage that extended beyond just finding happiness and falling in love. They wanted a vision that dealt with the realities of life and gave them a picture of marriage worth fighting for. As a business professional who helps companies “rebrand” when their image doesn’t match up with their identity, Tyler realized that marriage has an image that doesn’t match up to what God designed it to be. Marriage Rebranded will help you replace four modern misconceptions about marriage with more timeless perspectives enlightened by biblical, personal, and historical studies. We need to rethink our modern brand of matrimony. It’s time for us to develop a new vision for marriage—a vision that’s worth fighting for.
Casamento sagrado - 2a edição
Seu casamento é mais do que um pacto sagrado com outra pessoa. É uma disciplina espiritual projetada para ajudá-lo a conhecer melhor a Deus, confiar nele mais plenamente e amá-lo mais profundamente. Dezenas de livros escritos oferecem orientação para construir o casamento dos seus sonhos. Mas e se a intenção principal de Deus para o seu casamento não for fazer você feliz . . . mas torná-lo santo? E se o seu relacionamento não for tanto sobre você e seu cônjuge, mas sobre você e Deus? Tudo sobre o seu casamento – tudo – está cheio de potencial profético, com a capacidade de descobrir e revelar o caráter de Cristo: o respeito que você conceder ao seu parceiro, o perdão que você humildemente buscar e graciosamente estender, o êxtase, a admiração e a pura diversão de fazer amor, a história que você e seu cônjuge construirem um com o outro. Casamento Sagrado desvenda o mistério do propósito primordial de Deus. Este livro pode muito bem alterar profundamente os contornos do seu casamento.
Sacred Marriage
PERNIKAHAN ANDA LEBIH DARI SEBUAH PERJANJIAN YANG KUDUS DENGAN SESEORANG Pernikahan Anda adalah sebuah disiplin rohani yang dirancang untuk menolong Anda mengenal Tuhan lebih baik, memercayai-Nya lebih penuh, dan mengasihi-Nya lebih dalam. Sacred Marriage diakui sebagai sebuah karya modern yang setara dengan berbagai literatur klasik. Perspektifnya yang unik dan menginspirasi tentang pernikahan sebagai sebuah disiplin rohani telah memengaruhi banyak pemimpin gereja, guru-guru di berbagai bidang, dan ribuan pembaca di seluruh dunia. Buku karya Gary Thomas ini tidak memberitahu Anda bagaimana caranya membangun pernikahan yang lebih baik, tetapi menunjukkan bagaimana pernikahan Anda dapat menol...
