What theologians are saying about Not Under Bondage
"Barbara Roberts has read widely and wrestled with the text of scripture and I stand in awe of what she has achieved."
Michael Hill (The How and Why of Love: An introduction to evangelical ethics; Vice Principal, Moore College, Sydney)
"From time to time I tell my students that what keeps me going in ethics is the opportunity to quiet frightened consciences by providing a more adequate biblical perspective on various issues. Not Under Bondage achieves this to an eminent degree. The chapters on ‘abuse’ and ‘separation’ are especially illuminating – the best I've seen, in fact, on abuse and the biblical response to it."
David Clyde Jones (Professor of Theology and Ethics, Covenant Seminary, USA; author of Biblical Christian Ethics)
"This book removed the scales from my eyes and brought me face-to-face with the plight of victims of abuse who entered their marriage promising to honor Jesus’ command ‘not to separate what God had joined together’. Several years ago I changed my mind about the scope of this seemingly absolute prohibition.
Not Under Bondage will help you wrestle through the when and the why of how you might be exempted from a marriage covenant that has been violated by various forms of abuse. Roberts is definitely not trying to ‘open the floodgates’ of excuses for divorce."
William Heth (author of ‘Jesus and Divorce: How my mind has changed’; contributor to Remarriage After Divorce in Today's Church)
"This book bravely faces up to the consequences of abuse within the Christian community, in a practical and theological way, without ignoring the complexities of the Bible teaching on divorce and remarriage."
David Instone-Brewer (author of Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible, and Divorce and Remarriage in the Church; Research Fellow at Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK. www.instone-brewer.com)
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