on divorce and remarriage

This is an excerpt from the same commentary (see previous post):

"Those who use Matthew 5:32, in particular those trying to determine the meaning of 'except on the grounds of porneias' in order to decide if and when divorce may be justified, unfortunately transform the text from one of permission to legalistic exchange.. What is crucial is not the question of when a marriage may be dissolved, but given the new dispensation the question should be how Christians should understand marriage. In similar fashion the question is not whether a divorced woman should be allowed to marry, but what kind of community must a church be that does not make it a matter of necessity for such a woman to remarry. If Christians do not have to marry, if women who have been abandoned do not have to remarry, then surely the church must be a community of friendship that is an alternative to the loneliness of our world. At the very least, any community capable of sustaining singleness as a way of life must be a community based on trust made possible by the speaking of truth to one another" (70).