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18 GOD, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILYimmediately impressed by the spirituality and scholarship of its faculty.Drs. Köstenberger and Jones (as well as Dr. Liederbach, who contributedtwo sections on medical ethics) are among those gems. I love these menand rejoice in this wonderful gift they have presented to the church ofthe Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that God will give this volume both a wideaudience and receptive hearts. God, Marriage, and Family calls us to ahigher standard, God’s standard, when it comes to how we think aboutmarriage and family.Daniel L. AkinPresidentSoutheastern Baptist Theological SeminaryWake Forest, North Carolina
PREFACETHE VISION FOR THE present volume was born when I (Andreas) wasasked to write an essay on marriage and the family in the NewTestament for a recent book (Marriage and Family in the BiblicalWorld; InterVarsity, 2003). While working on the project, it becameclear that while issues related to marriage and the family are integratedin Scripture, there still is no book-length treatment that presents thebiblical teaching on these topics in an integrative format. In our owncontext at Southeastern Seminary, a new course, “Marriage andFamily: Foundations,” was recently added to the curriculum and is nowrequired of all students, which further underscored the need for thiskind of treatment.Not only are we driven by a passion for God’s Word and for teachingwhat the Bible says on marriage and the family, but recent developmentsin the general culture further fuel our sense of urgency andconcern. Some denominations have found it necessary to add a statementdefining marriage as a union between one man and one woman totheir official doctrinal base. Episcopalians have appointed an openlypracticing homosexual as bishop for the first time in their history. Thecourts and public officials have ruled, enacted, and spoken out in favorof same-sex marriages. The media, too, tend to be sympathetic to gayrights issues. Others in contemporary government have gone on recordas favoring a constitutional amendment defining marriage as betweenone man and one woman.On the basis of our conviction that the current cultural crisis withregard to marriage and family is at the root a spiritual crisis, we firmlybelieve that the only solution is a return to, and rebuilding of, the biblicalfoundations of these institutions. Once God is removed as the initiatorof the institution of marriage and the family, the door is openedto a plethora of human understandings of these terms and concepts, and,in the spirit of postmodernism, no one definition has the right to claim
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