Classic Replay: Divorce and remarriage – David Instone-Brewer and Andrew Cornes

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

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This week we look at two different Christian views of Divorce and Remarriage. Andrew Cornes is part of the clergy team at All Souls Eastbourne. He holds to the traditional understanding that Jesus taught divorce is only permissible for adultery, and that the Bible forbids remarriage. David Instone-Brewer is a New Testament scholar from Tyndale House Cambridge. He believes the church has misunderstood Jesus teaching on divorce. He claims that Jesus was responding to "any cause" divorce - a Rabbinical view of divorce popular at the time. They debate the Biblical and pastoral issues involved. For David Instone-Brewer’s book Divorce and Remarriage in the Church (Paternoster) Click here For Andrew Cornes’ book Divorce and Remarriage: Biblical Principle and Pastoral Practise (Christian Focus) Click here For Unbelievable? The Conference 2021 http://www.unbelievable.live USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources and to support us: http://www.unbelievable.show Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unbelievable, with Justin Broerley.
0:16.7	I'm Ruth Jackson, part of the unbelievable team and you are listening to a classic replay
0:21.0	programme from the archives.
0:22.9	The episode you are about to hear was first broadcast on Premier Christian Radio on the
0:27.1	13th of February 2010. The discussion is around divorce and remarriage with Christians,
0:33.0	David, Instone, Brewer and Andrew Corns. You can get in touch with the show and listen
0:37.8	to more episodes at premierChristianRadio.com slash unbelievable.
0:43.3	Welcome along to the programme and a really interesting topic for you this afternoon. What
0:50.9	did Jesus actually say about divorce and remarriage we're asking? It is National Marriage Week
0:56.4	and we've been covering that in various ways here on the station in the last week or so.
1:00.9	But today on the programme two Christians join me as we look at two different opinions
1:05.9	on divorce and remarriage in the Bible. David Instone, Brewer is a New Testament scholar
1:11.1	from Tindale House in Cambridge and Rick Corns is the Vicar of All Saints Church in Crobra.
1:16.0	We're going to be hearing their different takes on what the Bible has to say about divorce
1:19.8	and remarriage. What Jesus had to say on it all very relevant of course to an age where
1:24.7	divorce is more and more common. What do Christians have to say to this very troubling area of
1:30.6	pastoral and biblical practice?
1:33.7	Well gentlemen, thank you both for joining me on the programme today. Great to have you
1:40.1	with me. Perhaps first turn to you first of all Andrew. Tell us a little bit about yourself
1:46.9	and your ministry and how you came into this particular area as a speciality or an especially
1:55.8	interest issue. Well as you say I'm the Vicar of Crobra and I've been there for 20 years.
1:59.5	Before that I was in the States and that partly aroused my interest because divorce is even
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