" it is inconsistent to choose which commands are to
be taken literally and which are ideals," on what grounds does the Modern Churchmen's Union disregard the uncomfortably straight-off-the-bat utterance on the indissolubility of marriage given in St. Mark's Gospel, which, as a theological student, I have been taught to consider as being the record of the Original Gospel and a primary source of the other synoptists ?
May I add that however the clergy of the Diocese of Chelmsford may be persuaded in this matter, the general opinion of the Anglican Church is still that stit put forth in The Church Times of May 2nd, 1952:
" The Christian law of marriage is plain and explicit. Marriage, freely contracted and duly consummated, is an indissoluble union of one man and one woman until death. Proceedings for the annulment of a marriage are sometimes right and proper. Separa- tion between spouses is sometimes a tragic necessity. Divorce is a contradiction of fundamental, natural, and Christian law."
East Bark with, Lincoln.
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