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Singleness and the Church: A New Theology of the Single Life
Singleness and the Church: A New Theology of the Single Life
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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.
Author: Jana Marguerite Bennett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/18/2017
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190462628
Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2018
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.
Author: Jana Marguerite Bennett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/18/2017
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190462628
Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2018
About the Author
Jana Marguerite Bennett is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Dayton. She is also the author of Water is Thicker than Blood: An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singleness (Oxford University Press) and blogs for Catholic Moral Theology.
