marriage

Book Review: Covenant Hearts: Marriage and the Joy of Human Love

Covenant Hearts cover

On our four year anniversary, I blogged briefly about Covenant Hearts: Marriage and the Joy of Human Love by Bruce C. Hafen. Even though Hafen is a Latter-Day Saint and I was raised Southern Baptist, I enjoyed Covenant Hearts because it enhanced my understanding of marriage, its commitments, and its social responsibilities.

Hafen organizes the book into four sections: Losing the Plot, Personal Covenants, Social Covenants, and the conclusion, which includes an epilogue from his wife. The Personal Covenants section is by far the largest, housing 14 chapters and almost 150 pages.

Covenant Hearts: Celebrating The Joy of Marriage

Christina, my dearest friend here, lent me the book on marriage Covenant Hearts: Marriage and the Joy of Human Love by Bruce C. Hafen on Monday. Covenant Hearts is written by an experienced family lawyer and it covers marriage as the Mormon church believes it should be, along with the many problems the changes in the American legal systems has caused to marriage today. I haven’t read much of it yet, but today is a special day in the Mueller household, so I want to share some thoughts inspired by the book.

Because he is writing to an LDS readership and from the perspective of a Mormon, Hafen regularly discusses the difference between covenant marriages and contractual marriages.