Like all Christians before him, Bonhoeffer believed marriage is not just a private romance but a public institution ordained by God as the means by which the earth is filled with people who bear His image. “In your love you see only your two selves in the world,” Bonhoeffer continued, “but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations, which God causes to come and to pass away to His glory, and calls into His kingdom.”
