Families at the Crossroads: Beyond Tradition & Modern Options

"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" writes author Rodney Clapp. 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. Named one of the Best Books of 1995 by the London Bible College Bookshop.

Author: Rodney Clapp
Publisher: IVP
Published: 09/28/1993
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.42w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780830816552

About the Author
Clapp, Rodney R.: - His essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including Christianity Today, Regeneration Quarterly and Books and Culture. Clapp is now an editor with Brazos Press, a new imprint of Baker Book House.