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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foundations | |
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| Family or Families? The Problems of Parenting in a Postmodern Age | |
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| What Is a Family? | |
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| Feminist Questioning of the Family | |
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| Christian Theology: Family or Families? | |
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| Listening to Families; Talking about "the Family" | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| The Catholic Marriage Liturgy: A Different Vision of Marriage | |
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| Reading the Popular Wedding | |
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| Limitations of the Popular Wedding | |
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| A Brief History of the Christian Wedding | |
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| Reading the New Catholic Guidelines for Weddings | |
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| Theology behind the New Marriage Liturgy | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| New Testament Vision | |
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| What Will We Read? | |
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| Reading the New Testament | |
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| Jesus as Model: Leaving Family Behind | |
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| Jesus' Message: Questioning the Primacy of Family Ties | |
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| Early Christian Practice: A New Kind of Family | |
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| Why Celibacy? | |
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| Return to Family? | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Traditional Ways of Speaking about Marriage | |
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| Domus | |
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| The Legacy of the First Christians | |
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| From Contract to Sacrament | |
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| Protestant Models: Social Estate and Covenant | |
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| Marriage as Relationship | |
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| Marriage as Communion | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Applications | |
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| The Dual Vocation of Christian Parents | |
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| Lame Parents | |
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| Sacrificing for Children | |
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| Sacrificing for the World | |
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| Dual Vocation | |
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| Work | |
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| Family | |
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| Dual Vocation with Caution | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Mothering in Christian Families | |
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| Waiting in the Park | |
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| Mothering in the Thought of John Paul II | |
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| Theologians and Motherhood | |
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| Reading the Pope into Dialogue with Theologians | |
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| The Search for a Mother-God | |
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| Can a Mother Have a Self? | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Fathering in Christian Families | |
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| Dominic's Doll | |
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| A Brief History of Fatherhood | |
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| What Modern Fathers Do | |
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| What Can Fathers Do? | |
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| Effects of Fathers' Involvement on Children | |
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| God the Father Reconsidered | |
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| Bringing God the Father Home | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Welcoming the Children | |
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| Stephen's Theological Dilemmas | |
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| What Do Children Need? | |
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| The Child as Model of Discipleship | |
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| Caring for Children: Godparents and Other-Mothers | |
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| Children as Disciples | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Divorce and Remarriage in Christian Families | |
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| Tensions in an Age of Divorce | |
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| What Did Jesus Say and How Much Does It Matter? | |
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| Catholic Teaching on Divorce and Its Critics | |
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| Effects of Divorce on Children | |
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| Pastoral Issues: Remarriage and Communion | |
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| Obligations during and after Divorce | |
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| Domestic Church Reconsidered | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| What Is Family For? | |
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| Justice and Passion | |
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| Catholic Social Teaching and the Family | |
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| Work | |
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| Time | |
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| Money | |
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| The Family Meal | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |