(eBook PDF) Perspectives on Marriage: A Reader 3rd Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0195313461
- ISBN-13 : 978-0195313468
- Author: Kieran Scott, Michael Warren
Thoroughly revised and updated in this third edition, Perspectives on Marriage is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary anthology ideal for courses in the theology and spirituality of marriage. This edition features thirteen new articles and incorporates the best of contemporary perspectives on marriage and sexuality. The selections represent a wide range of approaches, from the historical and canonical to the sociological, psychological, and ministerial. Striking a balance between solid theological material and stimulating readings on today’s issues, the volume explores marriage in its historical context; current views on the theology of marriage; the meanings and transitions of marriage; attitudes toward sexuality; communication, conflict, and change; commitment, divorce, and annulment; the spirituality of marriage; and various religious perspectives on marriage. The third edition includes a new section on issues that affect marriage–such as the commercialization of marriage and the financial stresses accompanying marriage–as well as new selections on such topics as same-sex marriage, cohabitation, the theology of dating, and counseling. Each essay is enhanced by a detailed editors’ introduction and by helpful discussion questions. Rich, provocative, and challenging, Perspectives on Marriage, Third Edition, is the most extensive and up-to-date reader of its kind.
Table of contents:
pt. 1. Marriage in historical perspective
1. Marriage in the Bible
2. The primitive Christian understanding of marriage
3. Marriage : a historical survey
pt. 2. Contemporary perspectives on the theology of marriage
4. Christian marriage : basic sacrament
5. “Nuptial Pentecost” : theological reflections on the presence and action of the Holy Spirit in Christian marriage
pt. 3. Marriage : meanings and transitions
6. Marriage versus living together
7. Marriage preparation and cohabiting couples : information report
8. Cohabitation and marriage as a life-process
9. The meaning of a marriage
10. The meaning of marriage : of two minds
11. Same-sex marriage : threat or aspiration
12. Marriage becomes a journey
pt. 4. Attitudes toward sexuality
13. Sex matters : the riches of the Catholic sexual tradition
14. A revolution’s broken promises
15. Passionate attachments in the West in historical perspective
16. Four mischievous theories of sex : demonic, divine, casual, and nuisance
17. The neglected heart : the emotional dangers of premature sexual involvement
18. Sex, time, and meaning : a theology of dating
19. Beyond romance to human love
20. The transmission of life
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