TIME FOR LOVE: The Place of Marriage and Children in the Thought of Stanley Hauerwas
In essays written throughout his career, Stanley Hauerwas has unfolded a Christian vision of the marriage bond and the presence of children that seeks insistently to place these seemingly natural bonds within the new family of God that is the church. I examine his understanding, aiming to appreciate...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2012
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 250-261 |
| Further subjects: | B
Romanticism
B Family B goods of marriage B Vocation B singleness B practice of medicine |
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| Summary: | In essays written throughout his career, Stanley Hauerwas has unfolded a Christian vision of the marriage bond and the presence of children that seeks insistently to place these seemingly natural bonds within the new family of God that is the church. I examine his understanding, aiming to appreciate the Christian vision displayed while also suggesting that his emphasis on the new thing God does in the church is sometimes allowed to absorb and thereby lose the distinctive significance of the created bonds of marriage and family. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2012.00520.x |