Transforming the struggles of Tamars
Subtitle: single women and baptistic communities
By: Lina Andronovienė ; with a foreword by Parush R. Parushev
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781625641083
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Single women; Religious life; Church work with single people
Description: This book explores the unprecedented challenge of involuntary singleness for women, and the implications of disregarding this challenge for the Christian (and particularly, baptistic) communities of faith. It argues that these communities not only fail involuntarily single women, but also in so doing, suffer a serious detriment to their own communal health and Christian witness. Taking the challenge of involuntary singleness as a test case, this book explores the method of convictional theology and argues for a holistic framework that can draw together the personal, communal, and visionary spheres of human existence. Although primarily a work of theological ethics, it also draws from a number of different disciplines, including cultural studies and sociology as well as intersections of science and theology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279) and index.