Families at the Crossroads Beyond Traditional and Modern Options

Name: Families at the Crossroads Beyond Traditional and Modern Options
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ISBN: 9780830816552

ISBN-10: 0830816550

ISBN-13: 9780830816552

Edition: 1993

Authors: Rodney Clapp

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"Scant decades ago most Westerners agreed that . . . Lifelong monogamy was ideal . . . Mothers should stay home with children . . . premarital sex was to be discouraged . . . Heterosexuality was the unquestioned norm . . . popular culture should not corrupt children. Today not a single one of these expectations is uncontroversial."So writes Rodney Clapp in assessing the status of the family in postmodern Western society.In response many evangelicals have been quick to defend the so-called traditional family, assuming that it exemplifies the biblical model. Clapp challenges that assumption, arguing that the "traditional" family is a reflection more of the nineteenth-century middle-class…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 9/28/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.42" wide x 8.20" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English




Postmodernity: A New Battlefield for the War over the Family



The Unnaturalness of Family



Advanced Capitalism & the Lost Art of Christian Family



Church as First Family



The Superiority of Singleness



Whose Fidelity? Which Intimacy?



Welcoming Children & Other Strangers



No Christian Home Is a Haven


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