Marriage and Family: A Christian Theological Foundation

By Natalie Kertes Weaver

Book Overview

In Marriage and Family: A Christian Theological Foundation, Natalie Kertes Weaver expertly integrates an introduction to foundational theology with a Christian theology of marriage and family. College students relatively new to these topics will find themselves in good hands as Weaver lays out Christian historical and theological developments relating to marriage and family, including the following foundational issues:
- marriage as covenant
- the model of Jesus' love for marital charity
- civil and ecclesial treatments of marriage
- Catholic teaching of marriage as sacrament
- dignity and human sexuality within marriage
- the family as domestic church
- marriage and family and issues of justice, divorce, forgiveness, and more
- modern marriage and its future

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884899772
• ISBN13: 9780884899778
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Anselm Academic
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 7.3"