Marriage in the age of apocalyptic romance

I enjoyed listening to this, via a tweet from the Gospel Coalition (here’s the blog post). Tim and Kathy Keller respond to questions about marriage, and discuss this secret thread, or mythos, idea further, and there are good things said about healing from disappointment in relationships and so on.

Plus I love the way Keller always includes, and is willing to learn from, other interesting sources. I have been reading some W.H. Auden poetry lately (just last night in fact), and Keller quotes Auden here:

Even though it’s not specifically Christian, W.H. Auden says “Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate, because marriage is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion, but the creation of time and will”. When that time and will is powered by the gospel, that’s a Christian marriage.

Marriage in the Age of Apocalyptic Romance from The Gospel Coalition on Vimeo.