Marriage: The Mystery of Faithful Love

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Summary: Excellent book for couples of any faith.
Review: Marriage gives true love a structure. Hildebrand makes the point that marriage causes each spouse to fight against himself for the sake of his beloved. This, argues, von Hildebrand is why it has become so unpopular.

Von Hildebrand has provides us a forcefully correct understanding of marriage. If you believe that love is both enduring and faithful and that marriage is an unbreakable bond, this book is for you. If you believe that marriage is a well intended union, but need not be permanent this book is really for you.

Von Hildebrand has not written another dimestore "discover yourself and save your marriage" books. Von Hildebrand understands, and argues forcefully, that in loving your spouse you are loving Christ because your spouse is a member of the Body of Christ.

Selfless love towards your spouse is to care solely for the salvation of the person meant by God for you. Once this is realized conjugal love, romantic love, and an enduring love follow.

I really enjoyed this book. It provides an insight into the Catholic understanding of marriage as a sacrament and indissolvable union. No reader will leave this book without having gained some insight and respect for marriage. Buy the book.

Rating:
Summary: MARRIAGE AS IT IS AND AS IT SHOULD BE
Review: Marriage gives true love a structure. Hildebrand makes the point that marriage causes each spouse to fight against himself for the sake of his beloved. This, argues, von Hildebrand is why it has become so unpopular.

Von Hildebrand has provides us a forcefully correct understanding of marriage. If you believe that love is both enduring and faithful and that marriage is an unbreakable bond, this book is for you. If you believe that marriage is a well intended union, but need not be permanent this book is really for you.

Von Hildebrand has not written another dimestore "discover yourself and save your marriage" books. Von Hildebrand understands, and argues forcefully, that in loving your spouse you are loving Christ because your spouse is a member of the Body of Christ.

Selfless love towards your spouse is to care solely for the salvation of the person meant by God for you. Once this is realized conjugal love, romantic love, and an enduring love follow.

I really enjoyed this book. It provides an insight into the Catholic understanding of marriage as a sacrament and indissolvable union. No reader will leave this book without having gained some insight and respect for marriage. Buy the book.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent book for couples of any faith.
Review: von Hildebrand recovers for our modern world a vision of marriage not often believed to be possible, showing that -- in fact -- such a marriage is both eminently possible and _necessary_, a marriage in which the bond is much deeper than legal or emotional, a marriage in which the couple -- as another reivewer noted -- "fight against themselves on behalf of the other." It is a thing of hard work, of surrender, of bliss, and of deep growth and union. It is a path to true sanctity. This is the marriage for which everyone longs but which few realize is possible.