The way of a man with a maiden was too wonderful for the writer of
Proverbs to understand. Preoccupying so many thoughts and dreams,
the subject of countless songs, films and fairy tales, the love
between a man and a woman has always been a profound and perplexing
mystery. And yet we do not live happily ever after. Four out of ten
marriages will end in divorce. Couples now choose to live together
rather than marry, and those relationships are even less likely to
last. People are having fewer children, later, and with a
succession of partners. Ironically, just when so much is expected
of love, Western societies are witnessing lower levels of public
commitment in sexual relationships than ever before. The scale of
this change amounts to a revolution, a major historical paradigm
shift. The statistics mask a depth of pain that every pastor and
counsellor knows only too well. We must face the inevitable
questions: if faithfulness is no longer esteemed, why get married
at all? What is marriage? What did God intend when he gave us
marriage? Christopher Ash argues that our modern idolization of the
sexual relationship contains within itself the seeds of its own
destruction. To begin to rebuild a biblical confidence in marriage,
we need to understand that the primary blessing and purpose of
marriage is not sexual intimacy, but rather serving God in
partnership. This in turn leads to the blessings of love,
friendship, children, and order in society, and will help us to
rediscover that faithfulness which is the heart of marriage. One of
those precious rarities - a major piece of biblical scholarship
which addresses an issue in todays headlines directly and warmly.
One to own, not to borrow. --David Field Deeply scholarly,
extraordinarily thorough and biblically faithful, as well as
courageously fresh in rethinking the role of marriage in Gods
intention for human life. -- David Wright Christopher Ash studied
at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and then joined the staff at St. Andrew
the Great, Cambridge. From there he headed to a church plant and is
now Rector of All Saints, Little Shelford. He is married to Carolyn
and they have four children.
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