Jana Marguerite Bennett ( Associate Professor of Theological Ethics

Singleness and the Church

A New Theology of the Single Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Singleness is a much overlooked treasure in Christian tradition. In these pages, Christians (single and married alike) can rediscover the richness of singleness in its great variety. This book offers thought-provoking cultural and theological analysis, along with voices of single Christian people down through the centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780190462628
• ISBN-10: 0190462620
• Artikelnr.: 47864538

Autorenporträt

Jana Marguerite Bennett is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Dayton. She is also the author of Water is Thicker than Blood: An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singleness and blogs at catholicmoraltheology.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 - Loneliness: The Character of a Single Life?
Chapter 2 - Choice: Never Married and Paul
Chapter 3 - Desire: Uncommitted Relationships and Augustine
Chapter 4 - Perfection: Committed Relationships and John Wesley
Chapter 5 - Friendship: Same-Sex Attracted, Single, and Aelred of Rievaulx
Chapter 6 - Proclamation: Widowhood and Elizabeth Ann Seton
Chapter 7 - Grace: Divorce and Stanley Hauerwas
Chapter 8 - Sufficiency: Single Parenting and Dorothy Day
Conclusions