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Water is thicker than blood : an Augustinian theology of marriage and singleness / Jana Marguerite Bennett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: ix, 243 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780195315431
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 234.165 23
LOC classification:
  • BT706 .B46 2008
Contents:
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.
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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.