Water is thicker than blood :

Bennett, Jana Marguerite, 1975-

Water is thicker than blood : an Augustinian theology of marriage and singleness / Jana Marguerite Bennett. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - ix, 243 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-237) and index.

Preliminary arguments for a theology of households -- How "theology of marriage" damages ecclesiology -- Seeing the world with Augustine : word, story, and worship -- Intertwining households : states of life in salvation history -- Marriage in creation, fall, and redemption : against gendered dichotomies -- Neither married nor given in marriage : singleness and salvation history -- Christians' eschatological home -- Households expanding : eschatological visions of Christ -- The political household of God : against the public/private dichotomy -- At home in Christ : living as citizen-households.

9780195315431

2007019997


Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.


Marriage--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

BT706 / .B46 2008

234.165