Marriage Made in Eden is replete with fresh insights into the true meaning of Christian marriage. The authors describe marriage as more than a civil contract -- it is also a depiction of the relationship between God and God's people. Seeing marriage this way shapes God's people in four ways: 1.) God created male and female to bear the divine image equally. 2.) Since the image-bearers ruptured their relationship with God through sin, the image in them is "bent and broken." 3.) God promises one day to restore the distorted image. 4.) Marriage is shaped both by personal brokenness and by the culture's hostility toward God's purposes.

The authors give a thorough and sound biblical theology of marriage, concluding that marriage is not about power. "It is not about forming a hierarchy of privilege or of authority or of importance. ... Marriage is not about one broken image-bearer controlling another."

See Rev. Leslie McKinney's review of this book in the Fall 2004 issue of Priscilla Papers.