Negotiating challenges and change in Christian marriage In the previous four articles, I argued that faithful love is best understood as a lifelong practice in which affection, friendship, desire and altruism are shaped by compatibility, commitment, companionship and character. I suggested that Christian marriage embodies this love as adaptive fidelity: a covenant in which two persons …
The Art of Faithful Love (Part 4)
What sustains a contemporary Christian marriage? In Part 1, I explored C. S. Lewis’s four kinds of human love, arguing that each flourishes when received as a finite good, shaped by mutuality and respect, and transformed by divine love into generous, courageous and non-possessive relationships. In Part 2, I proposed that compatibility, commitment, companionship and character …
The Art of Faithful Love (Part 3)
The ideals of contemporary Christian marriage In the past decade, in Australia and elsewhere, what used to be understood as Christian marriage has been subject to criticism and in some cases ridicule. We have emerged from that cultural moment with a broader definition of marriage, a better understanding of the complexity of modern social practices, …
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