Summary Of Professional Hand Book On Marriage

In his description of marriage, Chidili Bartholomew sees marriage in his book, Professional Hand Book on Marriage Course as “the state of being husband and wife, the legal union or contract made by a man and a woman to live as husband and wife, or any formal commitment between a man and a woman to cohabit more or less permanently”(1). He further defines marriage in four subtitles as: mystery; societal; religion and divinely made (1). As mystery the author says “what makes marriage a mystery is that humans know marriage is existing and people of all races marry but unable to know why a particular boy must marry a particular girl and vice versa”. As societal, the author makes reference to the communal aspect where the whole families and acquaintances

He proposes that in entering marriage, spouses commit themselves to fostering conjugal love toward one another as he writes, “Love is called for from both spouses once marriage is completed… the fact that the other is the groom or bride presents a motive for love. And yet, even though marriage is a motivation for developing conjugal love, the ultimate motive of love should be found in the qualities of the other’s personality as such”. On sacramental Christian marriage, he writes, “Christian marriage solemnly engaged in for Christ and in Christ, in the light of eternity, and carrying with it a sense of the deepest responsibility, differs radically from even the noblest natural marriage in which one spouse sees the other only within the limits of the natural order” (Web.

Dalamay sees marriage strictly as “a relationship between a man and a woman that will endure till death do them part” (Luke 300). Dalamay’s opinion of marriage underscores the strict welfare of the couple irrespective of whether procreation and rearing of off spring come. While according to Francis Wegh, marriage is understood among the Tiv as continuity of the family, and because of this, custom does not usually allow a man free choice of his subjective considerations above those of the family (51-52). The definition above shows that marriage is a consortium between a man and a woman; a consortium that is perpetual and exclusive, a consortium directed towards the companionship of spouses; a consortium directed towards the generation and the upbringing of