Families at the Crossroads: Beyond Traditional & Modern Options - Brossura

Clapp, Rodney

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0830816550 ISBN 13: 9780830816552

Casa editrice: Intervarsity Pr, 1993

Riassunto

"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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Intervarsity Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0830816550
• ISBN 13: 9780830816552
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208