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Divorce and Remarriage in the Church Spiral-Bound | 2006-10-05

David Instone-Brewer

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Divorce and remarriage are major pastoral issues facing every church. Yet when we turn to Scripture for guidance, we often hear conflicting messages about its teachings. David Instone-Brewer shows how the New Testament provides faithful, realistic and wise guidance of crucial importance and practical help for the church today.



Will God allow me to divorce my abusive husband?Would it be a sin if I remarried?Divorce and remarriage are major pastoral issues facing every church. Yet when we turn to Scripture for guidance, we often hear conflicting messages about its teachings. David Instone-Brewer shows how, when properly understood, the New Testament provides faithful, realistic and wise guidance of crucial importance and practical help for the church today.

Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 213 pages
ISBN-10: 0830833749
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 101 to 500 ratings
"The next time I teach or counsel on divorce and remarriage I'm heading straight for this book. Not only does it make the biblical texts clear, it makes it clear how to teach them." -Dave Hansen, Kenwood Baptist Church, Cincinnati, Ohio

The Rev. Dr. David Instone-Brewer is a research fellow at Tyndale House, a research library in biblical studies located in Cambridge, England. He previously served as a Baptist minister. His previous publications include Techniques and Assumptions in Jewish Exegesis Before 70 C.E., Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible and Traditions of the Rabbis from the Era of the New Testament.