GOD’S DIVORCE:
Understanding New Testament divorce and
remarriage teaching
By Dr Colin Hamer
Faithbuilders. 156 pages. £10.99
ISBN 978 1 910 942 789
This is fascinating and helpful book, which is warmly commended by the fine New Testament scholar, Craig L. Blomberg as ‘the best and most thorough treatment of this topic now available’. That is high praise!
I found it particularly helpful in showing that the Bible begins with a marriage (Adam and Eve) and ends with a marriage (The Lamb and his bride the church), so that God’s intention for marriage is a central theme of the Bible. This is reinforced by drawing attention to a key OT picture – ‘Your maker is your husband’ (Isaiah 54.5) which is particularly developed in Hosea.
