Marriage Family and Relationships

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Family life has undergone revolutionary changes in Western society in the last sixty years posing both theological and ethical challenges for the contemporary church. This book responds with wide-ranging essays on sexuality marriage family life singleness same-sex relationships violence against women anthropology gender and culture.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>These chapters are essential reading for anyone concerned with Christian teaching on marriage and the family. They balance a clear loyalty to the church's historic and biblical teaching with a recognition that all doctrine is contextualized. There is a growing gap between the ethics of many Christians and those of wider society. So Christians have to be counter-cultural. But the church also has to be self-critical differentiating between biblical revelation and cultural development. And it must know how to present unchanging Christian convictions to a constantly changing society.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The contributors are Andy Angel Daniel Block Rosalind Clarke Barry Danylak Andrew Goddard Stephen Holmes David Instone Brewer A. T. B. McGowan Nicholas Moore Onesimus Ngundu Oliver O'Donovan Ian Paul Andrew Sloane Katy Smith Elaine Storkey and Sarah Whittle.</span></p><p></p>