Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family - Hardcover

Ruether, Rosemary Radford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807054046 ISBN 13: 9780807054048

Publisher: Beacon Pr, 2000

Synopsis

In a time when 'family values' occupies the minds of politicians and the public, Christianity, Family, and the Rise of the West sheds new light on two of our oldest institutions, and offers a way of rethinking our relationships to ourselves and Christian faith.

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Review

Provocative. . . . [Ruether's] impressive scholarship, interweaving social history with religious history, puts the family in a fascinating historical context. --Marilyn Gardner, The Christian Science Monitor
"Though a new reading of history, [Ruether] leads us to the question, Is there a new way of reading family, sex, and procreation theologically that can support a more just and sustainable vision of family, home, and work?" --Rosemary Keller, editor of In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing
"Well-researched, insightfully honest and engaging. . . . The appeal of Ruether's book is wide. [Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family] forces the reader to assess his or her own understanding of family and family systems. Ruether's book is long overdue." --Nancy Hawkins, America
"A highly readable and important political stab at timely theological and cultural questions." --Sandra Collins, Library Journal

About the Author

Rosemary Radford Ruether, one of the world's leading feminist theologians, is the author of over thirty books, and is the Georgia Harkness Professor of Applied Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Beacon Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807054046
• ISBN 13: 9780807054048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294