Evangelical Protestant and Jewish ultra-Orthodox communities are two high-tension religious groups that share an emphasis on traditional family values. Their leaders must communicate the virtues of religious marriage to “curious outsiders” while supporting “distressed insiders” whose marriages have become unstable. This article analyzes thirty marital guidebooks, fifteen ultra-Orthodox, and fifteen evangelical Protestant to probe their strategies. A key finding is the abundance of marriage theologies in the guidebooks, that is, schemas that endeavor to make sense of marriage and its vicissitudes by explicating God’s role and expectations for the couple. Five shared and four denomination-specific marriage theologies are identified and discussed.

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“上帝的操作手册”：超正统和福音派婚姻指南中的婚姻神学

福音派新教徒和犹太超东正教社区是两个强调传统家庭价值观的高压宗教团体。他们的领导人必须向“好奇的局外人”传达宗教婚姻的美德，同时支持婚姻不稳定的“陷入困境的局内人”。本文分析了三十本婚姻指南，十五本极端东正教和十五本福音派新教徒，以探讨他们的策略。一个重要发现是指南中丰富的婚姻神学，即通过阐明上帝对夫妻的作用和期望而努力理解婚姻及其沧桑的模式。确定并讨论了五种共同的和四种教派特定的婚姻神学。