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For A Glory and Covering: A Practical Theology of Marriage is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Lord, here am I. Change him.” “God, I’m trying. She started it.” Common claims, but they’re so far from Trinitarian life. We invoke Christ at the wedding, but then seem to default to an alien theology afterward. In this simple and practical book, Doug Wilson offers a richer and more comprehensive theology of marriage than in his prior works. Here he grounds marriage in the life of the Trinity...

which we will address shortly in our discussion of marriage and worship. In God’s pattern, in God’s way, glory increases as it descends. In Christ, the one who has descended the furthest, all the glory of the Godhead is revealed. Man bears the image of Christ, and woman bears the image and glory of the man. Conversely, this glory is revealed though submission. Christ submitted to the glory of the Father, men submit to the glory of Christ, and women submit to the glory of a husband who is doing this.
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