tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35594660.post2051107977812753631..comments2023-12-24T20:48:11.634+00:00Comments on Opinionated Vicar: Bonhoeffer on Marriage: is marriage a 'given'? David Keenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11872644403415655350noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35594660.post-16272902611597523512013-02-10T21:28:40.147+00:002013-02-10T21:28:40.147+00:00It strikes me that Jesus takes the meaning of marr...It strikes me that Jesus takes the meaning of marriage back to Creation as a temporal, not eternal, state. Looking through my postbag what it comes down to is one of two views of homosexuality. It is either (a) an anomaly against the created order or (b) a minority phenomenon within the created order. Most people these days take position (b). I don't quite understand how there can be an Bishop Alan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35594660.post-1597943956710550502013-02-10T11:50:46.565+00:002013-02-10T11:50:46.565+00:00Interesting and challenging: thank you. As for me,...Interesting and challenging: thank you. As for me, I see marriage not so much as a "given" as a "taken" - something that we humans have developed but which God has taken and blessed ... rather like the bread and wine in the eucharist, another sacrament: God takes the work of human hands, that which we build out of his raw materials, and transforms it — transfigures it, even — Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05709049598918097427noreply@blogger.com