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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781590523742
Meditate on the Spiritual Significance of Marriage
In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this Gold Medallion Award
winner, Mike Mason goes on a poetic search to understand the
wondrous dynamics of committed love. In highly readable,
first-person style, Mason’s writing stimulates readers’ thoughts
and prayers and propels couples to deeper intimacy. “A marriage is
not a joining of two worlds,” says the author, “but an abandoning
of two worlds in order that one new one might be formed.” Rich
chapters on “Otherness,” “Vows,” “Intimacy,” “Sex,” “Submission,”
and an all-new chapter on “Oneness” lift readers to view the
eternal, spiritual nature of this faith-filled, “impossible,”
wild—yet wonderful—frontier.
“The two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery.”
Ephesians 5:31–32
Beautifully written and filled with life-transforming insights,
the 20th anniversary edition of Mike Mason’s unparalleled Gold
Medallion winner explores the mystical and holy nature of marriage
with a depth that will forever alter how a couple relates to each
other—and to God.
The Mystery of Marriage stands out from how-to manuals on
marriage as a refreshing how-come book—a brilliant celebration of
the God-ordained union between man and wife.
“An outstanding achievement. Rarely has a book aroused in me so
much enthusiasm as has the combination of wisdom, depth, dignity,
and glow that I find in these chapters.”
-J.I. Packer
“Absolutely exquisite. It reaches down deep into our innermost
being, revealing, revitalizing, rewarding. A real classic.”
-Gigi Graham Tchividjian
“A drop everything book. Mason deals with the stunning paradoxes
of the mystery, the problems, and the glories of marriage. I don’t
need to read any other book on the subject.”
-Elisabeth Elliot
Story Behind the Book
Over the twenty years since its publication, many couples have
told me that they’ve read my book aloud to each other. This always
amazes me and gives me great joy. I’m also amazed that many single
people have read it. Either way, my goal is for hearts to be warmed
by the mystery of divine love. I want couples to enter into deeper
intimacy by thinking together about the mystery of marriage—about
how their love, besides being a gift of God, reflects the very love
He has for Himself in the Trinity. For God is not a bachelor, and
throughout the Bible marriage is a supreme picture of the nature of
God’s love and of His kingdom. I want people who read my book to
feel so soaked in these wonderful, divine mysteries that it deepens
their reverence for marriage and inspires them to greater love
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