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by: Saint John Chrysostom
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
EAN: 9780913836866
ISBN: 0913836869
Label: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Manufacturer: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 114
Publication Date: 1997-03
Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Sales Rank: 101482
Studio: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
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Rating: - Practical and profound
This great work, from the great pastor known for his practical yet profound preaching, contains the remedy for the crisis in Christian marriages today. We would do well to return again and again to these core lessons of faith applied to the practical living out of our marriage vows. It would not be a stretch to assert that all subsequent works on marriage are mere commentary to St. John's tried and tested 1600+ year old advice.
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Rating:  - Still relevant!
St. John's On Marriage and Family Life is so biblical and still relevant for the 21st century. There are only a very few things in these writings that might be considered more historical than practical. This book makes a great wedding or anniversary gift.
Rating: - How to be a good husband
St. John Chrysostom's homilies on marriage and family life are refreshingly free of political correctness. He teaches that women have the duty to obey their husbands, and that both men and women should be chaste before and after marriage. And yet, this book seems to be aimed more at men then at women; they are taught to love their wives as Christ loved His bride, the Church, which was not obedient or beautiful or good until He offered His life to make it clean.
The teaching in the book is timeless, ... Read More
Rating: - The Advice Is Great
The Advice given it this short work is great. Please, though, don't think that this is an entire work that Saint John wrote on marriage and family life, rather, it is just a compilation of modern times of a few seperate sermons which Saint John gave on days in which the Scriptural readings were dealing with marriage. Many would consider it chauvanistic, but others, like myself, know it's not so much chauvanistic as realistic. A must read and a must take-to-heart.
Rating: - Wonderful advice!
This text is easy to read and understand, I recommend it to anyone, whether or not they are considering marriage. The book is most definitely appropriate for High School age and up. However, the lessons that are taught in "On Marriage and Family Life" should be taught to children from birth.
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