The essentials of marriage

By 2025-09-23T06:41:00

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Veronica Zundel asserts that much of our so-called Christian view and practice of marriage is more cultural than biblical

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So begins Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice. The statement stems from a time when, at least for the middle and upper classes, a man at a certain stage of life was expected to ‘take’ a wife, rather as he might ‘take’ a house in Bath for the season. She would of course be expected to provide an heir (and ideally a spare) for his ‘good fortune’, and to manage an elegant house where he might entertain his friends.

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