Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891125191 ISBN 13: 9780891125198

Publisher: Leafwood Publishers, 2007

In this book, a serious scholar with extensive experience in ministry looks at the question of divorce and remarriage. He offers a redemptive theology that affirms the importance of marriage, the urgency of helping people survive their marital crises, and the redemptive mercies and grace of God for those who have divorced and remarried.

About the Author:

Rubel Shelly served as a minister for a large church in Nashville, Tennessee from 1978-2006. During that time he also taught at Lipscomb University and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, and is the author or co-author of many books. He presently lives in the Greater Detroit area where he teaches philosophy and religion at Rochester College.

Review:

With the high rate of divorce and religious confusion on this subject there is a desperate need for a book that is comprehensive in its appeal to the original Hebrew and Greek languages, that challenges the traditional interpretations, that is caring and compassionate, wise and practical. This is it! --Dr. Kenneth R. Greene, Pulpit Minister, Metro Church of Christ, Cedar Hill, TX

I wholeheartedly recommend Rubel Shelly's book as the most faithful, courageous and practical book on the topic I have ever read. Tentative where it needs to be, bold where it must be, and refreshingly humble throughout. --Scotty Smith, Christ Community Church, Franklin, Tennessee