As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and...

Marriage is one salvation pathway among many, although it contains different possibilities.

We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.

The central issue in the marriage is not well-being or happiness. It is, as this book has tried to demonstrate, salvation. Marriage involves not only a man and a woman who happily love each other...