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Fruits of the Spirit and Church Choice

By: Jana Marguerite Bennett,Melissa Musick Nussbaum

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Fruits of the Spirit and Church Choice

By: Jana Marguerite Bennett,Melissa Musick Nussbaum

Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice. The premise of consumer choice is that somewhere the perfect fit between product and purchaser exists. In the books on changing traditions the consumerist tone prevails--fundamentalists looking for an even more literal interpretation of Scripture, Protestants going home to Rome, feminists heading to the womyncentric sacred grove, conservatives fleeing inclusive rites, Catholics embracing the independent seeker church. But the consumerist impulse masks the kind of prayer and discernment necessary for living in Christian community and for following God. Twenty-first century Christians do make choices, but the hope is that they do so because they follow God. How then is one to answer the question of whether to stay or leave? Through meditating on the fruits of the Spirit that Paul addressed to the church at Galatia, a community that had several of its members wondering whether to stay or leave, Bennett and Nussbaum offer sage reflections about what it means to be led into and out of Christian communions.

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1556358997

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Singleness and the Church

A New Theology of the Single Life

By: Jana Marguerite Bennett

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A New Theology of the Single Life

By: Jana Marguerite Bennett

Despite the fact that almost half of all Americans are single, singleness remains an often overlooked oddity in American culture and in Christian communities. Christians ought to be the people who most support singleness, given what scripture and tradition suggest, but this does not seem to be the case. In this exciting new book, Jana Marguerite Bennett examines a variety of usually forgotten models of singleness: the never-married, the casually uncommitted, the committed but unmarried, the same-sex attracted, the widowed, the divorced, and the single parent. Each chapter in Singleness and the Church takes one of these models and considers the cultural commentary, Christian debate, and a holy guide-figures like Paul, Augustine, Aelred of Rievaulx, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Dorothy Day -in order to offer a new perspective on singleness, the church, and what it means to be a single Christian disciple. In Singleness and the Church, Bennett provides a fresh new theology of single life, a starting point for restoring singleness, in all its amazing varieties, to its rightful place in Christian tradition.

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Oxford University Press

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0190462647

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Singleness and the Church

A New Theology of the Single Life

By: Jana Marguerite Bennett

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A New Theology of the Single Life

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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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0190462620

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Water Is Thicker Than Blood

An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singlehood

By: Jana Marguerite Bennett

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Water Is Thicker Than Blood

An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singlehood

By: Jana Marguerite Bennett

This book considers how homes, households, and domestic life are related to the Church. Early theologies glorified the monastic lifestyle as a way to transcend earthly attachments in favor of supernatural goods. Contemporary thinkers have seen that functioning marriages and families themselves can lead us toward a more righteous society.Jana Bennett insists that both marriage and singleness must be placed in the context of the Christian story of redemption for the questions and problems at stake to be fully understood. She finds that Augustine of Hippo, maligned by modern theologians, is the source of very fruitful reflection on these topics. Most scholars today would agree that Augustine's works have exerted great influence on Western views of marriage, family, and sex. But many would argue that this influence has been detrimental to a healthy understanding of these topics. However, using Augustine's writing, Bennett shows that marriage and singleness cannot be considered separately, that gender issues are important to considering these states correctly and, most important, that the marriage between Christ and the Church is the first consideration in understanding and living these states of life. The water of baptism, Christians' first birth and initiation into the life of Christ, is the primary standard for relationships, rather than familial ties.

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OUP USA

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019531543X

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Fruits of the Spirit and Church Choice

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Water Is Thicker Than Blood

An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singlehood

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Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Singleness and the Church

Singleness and the Church

Singleness and the Church

Singleness and the Church

Water Is Thicker Than Blood

Water Is Thicker Than Blood

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Water Is Thicker Than Blood

Water Is Thicker Than Blood

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