When you begin to see the Bible as a book of love, it will change the way you view love, sex, marriage, family, and your personal relationship with God.
Bergsma focuses on what nine biblical marriages tell us about God’s relationship with us, including:
He also provides insight into Church teachings on marriage and relationships—such as monogamy, the single life, the Sacrament of Matrimony, and Jesus’s words about divorce—to show how these teachings come from the love God shares with his people through the covenants in scripture.
- Adam and Eve—who show us that marriage is the culmination of all creation and that marriage can be an image of the Trinity
- Ruth and Boaz—who display the tenderness and virtue of a marriage;
- Solomon and his bride in the Song of Songs—who illustrate a positive, healthy view of the body and physical beauty
- Jesus as Bridegroom of his people, the Church.
As with John Bergsma's other Bible Basics for Catholics books this is an excellent basic coverage, in this case how the Bible is the story of how marriage in the Bible shows us God's love for his people.
I really enjoyed the gradual development of complexity as we followed the marriages featured in salvation history. I hadn't thought of them in a linear fashion as being an "evolutionary story" of how marriage would be understood, but it's all right there, as John Bergsma shows us. So we get both an in-depth look at marriage and God's love for his people in one handy-dandy, easy to understand book.
As with the Bible Basics book, Bergsma uses the trick of simple stick pictures to help make the main points memorable and I was happy to see them. They really are wonderful memory aids.
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