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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 | |