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Marriage After Modernity: Christian Marriage in Postmodern Times

by Adrian Thatcher
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780814782507
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press
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  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: GBP 80.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 622 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Christian Living / Love & Marriage

For most Christians, marriage is considered a sacrament, created and uniquely blessed by God. Yet, the theology of marriage rarely matches the actual experience. Marriage is too often a violent, loveless institution-and it is increasingly delayed, avoided, or terminated.
Marriage After Modernity
offers new hope for Christian marriage at a time of unprecedented social and theological change. It provides an unreserved commendation of Christian marriage, reaffirming its status as a sacrament and institution of mutual self-giving. At the same time, it breaks new ground. It draws on earlier traditions of betrothal and informal marriage to accept some forms of pre-marital cohabitation and provides a new defense of the link between marriage and procreation by sketching a theology of liberation for children. Chapters shed new light on divorce and legitimate theological grounds for 'the parting of the ways, ' contraception, and the question of whether marriage is a heterosexual institution. Particular attention is paid throughout the book to overcoming the androcentric bias of much Christian thought and the distorting effect it has had on marriage.
Marriage After Modernity argues for a vision of marriage which does not abandon its history, and which draws upon its premodern roots to grapple with our current social, cultural, and intellectual upheavals.

Thatcher, Adrian: - Adrian Thatcher is Professor of Applied Theology at the University College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth, England.

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