TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Jana Marguerite TI - Water is thicker than blood: an Augustinian theology of marriage and singleness SN - 9780195315431 AV - BT706 .B46 2008 U1 - 234.165 23 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Augustine, KW - Marriage KW - History of doctrines KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 N1 - 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 ER -