6. For many of the ideas in this part of the chapter, I am indebted to Arvin Engelson: “Marriage as a vehicle for sanctification.” (From his unpublished paper, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.) “In the context of marriage, one encounters the possible redemption of the full life, the retrospective healing of your personal history. The third conversion of one’s biography is a divine work begun in this life, and it would seem that God has invested the marriage relationship with sufficient emotional power to challenge the authority of accumulated biographical verdicts and to thereby redeem the past.”