Is Christian singleness a burden to be endured or a God-ordained vocation? Might singleness here and now give the church a glimpse of God's heavenly promises?
Dani Treweek offers biblical, historical, cultural, and theological reflections to retrieve a theology of singleness for the church today. Drawing upon both ancient and contemporary theologians, including Augustine, Ælfric of Eynsham, John Paul II, and Stanley Hauerwas, she contends not only that singleness has served an important role throughout the church's history, but that single Christians present the church with a foretaste of the eschatological reality that awaits all of God's people.
Far from being a burden, then, Christian singleness is among the highest vocations of the faith.
Dani Treweek offers biblical, historical, cultural, and theological reflections to retrieve a theology of singleness for the church today. Drawing upon both ancient and contemporary theologians, including Augustine, Ælfric of Eynsham, John Paul II, and Stanley Hauerwas, she contends not only that singleness has served an important role throughout the church's history, but that single Christians present the church with a foretaste of the eschatological reality that awaits all of God's people.
Far from being a burden, then, Christian singleness is among the highest vocations of the faith.
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Table of Content
Foreword by Kutter Callaway
Preface
Introduction: Setting the Scene
Part One: The Context of Singleness
1. Singleness in Society
2. Singleness in the Church
Part Two: The Diagnosis of Singleness
3. The Character of Christian Singleness
4. The Value and Belonging of Christian Singleness
Part Three: The Retrieval of Singleness
5. Retrieving Singleness in Church History
6. Retrieving Singleness in Biblical Exegesis
7. Retrieving Singleness in Christian Theology
Part Four: The Meaning of Singleness
8. Telling the Time
9. Making the Meaning
10. Continuing the Conversation
Bibliography
General Index
Scripture Index
About the author
Kutter Callaway (Ph D, Fuller Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of Watching TV Religiously: Television and Theology in Dialogue and Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience.Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 336 ● ISBN 9781514004869 ● File size 6.5 MB ● Publisher IVP Academic ● City Lisle ● Country US ● Published 2023 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8876309 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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