Water is thicker than blood
Subtitle: an Augustinian theology of marriage and singleness
By: Jana Marguerite Bennett.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195315431
Subjects: Augustine, -- Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Marriage -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preliminary arguments for a theology of households; title: How theology of marriage damages ecclesiology; title: Seeing the world with Augustine : word, story, and worship; title: Intertwining households : states of life in salvation history; title: Marriage in creation, fall, and redemption : against gendered dichotomies; title: Neither married nor given in marriage : singleness and salvation history; title: Christians' eschatological home; title: Households expanding : eschatological visions of Christ; title: The political household of God : against the public/private dichotomy; title: At home in Christ : living as citizen-households.