Transforming the Struggles of Tamars: Single Women and Baptistic Communities

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.