Major re-think on divorce

This is an important and valuable contribution to the current debate about the Bible’s teaching on divorce. The central thesis is that marriage was designed by God as a picture of the relationship between Christ and the church (Ephesians 5). Hence marriage is a covenant, but (and this is the vital point) husband and wife have different roles and responsibilities within the covenant relationship. The husband is to love, provide and care for his wife (as Christ loves the church), and the wife is to submit to her husband and be faithful to him (as the church to Christ).

Bill James