Families at the Crossroads: Beyond Tradition Modern Options - Softcover

Clapp, Rodney R.

 
9780830816552: Families at the Crossroads: Beyond Tradition Modern Options
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0830816550 ISBN 13: 9780830816552
Verlag: IVP, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

"Scant decades ago most Westerners agreed that . . . Lifelong monogamy was ideal . . . Mothers should stay home with children . . . premarital sex was to be discouraged . . . Heterosexuality was the unquestioned norm . . . popular culture should not corrupt children. Today not a single one of these expectations is uncontroversial." So writes Rodney Clapp in assessing the status of the family in postmodern Western society.In response many evangelicals have been quick to defend the so-called traditional family, assuming that it exemplifies the biblical model. Clapp challenges that assumption, arguing that the "traditional" family is a reflection more of the nineteenth-century middle-class family than of any family one can find in Scripture. At the same time, he recognizes that many modern and postmodern options are not acceptable to Christians. Returning to the biblical story afresh to see what it might say to us in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Clapp articulates a challenge to both sides of a critical debate.A book to help us rethink the significance of the family for the next century.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rodney Clapp is an editor with Cascade Books. He is the author of several prize-winning books, most recently Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation.

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Verlag
IVP
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0830816550
ISBN 13 
9780830816552
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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