Rambo speaks confessionally about divorce, not hesitating to lay out his own experience as a divorced person. Yet, he is sufficiently through his grief process over the loss of his marriage that he speaks with an objectivity and clarity in giving substantive spiritual guidance and direction that at every point I find to be accurate, wise, and healing in their usefulness to christians. He forthrightly deals wit specific theological problems presented to christians by their being divorced. His understanding of the church as a heaven for hurting persons, a hospital for the wounded and nrokenhearted, a community of wisdom, love, and support is the most valuable cntribution of the book to the pastor and the lay person in the church. His other audience, divorced chrsitians, is his primary audience. He speaks to them directly and clearly in a empathic manner.
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