Nuclear weapons with their proneness to tempt absurd multiplication and frustrations in family life-these are the two greatest problems in our times and the eye of a typhoon that will drive mankind to destruction. Brunner argues that compared to the p...
Nuclear weapons with their proneness to tempt absurd multiplication and frustrations in family life-these are the two greatest problems in our times and the eye of a typhoon that will drive mankind to destruction. Brunner argues that compared to the problems of marriage, pains resulting from economic or political injustice deserve only a secondary importance.
It is necessary for modern men to recognize the persistent principles which have been conveyed through the Bible. In this context, this dissertation is an attempt to synthesize the morals of marriage St. Paul teaches in chapter seven of I Corinthians, chapter five of Ephesians and chapter four of I Thessalonians. Misinterpretations on his ideas seem to be prevented only when we give simultaneous thought to the first two chapters mentioned above.
St. Paul never worshiped the state of singleness. A pertinent judgment is that his idea about the impending Second Advent and the passion he concentrated on the work of Jesus, living in his notion the last century of Christianity, made him verbalize the so-called principle of status quo, the meaing of which being married ones stay married, single ones single in this case.
He also delivered quite realistic and moderate instructions as to divorce and re-marriage. In addition, his teachings about sex are valuable enough to gain the ear of the present generation. Paul certainly belonged to his own age, but at the same time he was a precursor as well who transcended it; he talked about the equality of the sexes and pointed the common participation of married couples.
The urgency to reconstruct our homes which are on the verge of getting split, and by doing so the modern society as a whole, while we conceive the ethics of marriage in the Bible again, gained relevance from Something about Emilia which was ABC TV's presentation on January 9th this year. Mankind, with its problems of marriage, is standing at the crossroads that can lead to either flourishment or collapse.