{"id":17478,"date":"2022-04-16T07:35:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T07:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tepbooks.com\/product\/marriage-and-family-9780884899778\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T07:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T07:35:33","slug":"marriage-and-family-9780884899778","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.tepbooks.com\/product\/marriage-and-family-9780884899778\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This text builds a foundational knowledge of theology while simultaneously developing major themes around the topics of marriage and family. The author speaks from the perspective of the sacramental theology of marriage but is always respectful of other faith traditions and the religiously diverse classroom. The book introduces, develops, and reinforces basic categories for thinking about the contemporary reality of marriage and family as grounded in the scriptural, historical, theological, ecclesial, and spiritual traditions of Christianity. Sensitive issues such as human sexuality and divorce are treated with a contextually grounded and moderate point of view. A meaningful correlation is made between the classical sources of Christianity and the lived experience of marriage. Included are discussion questions and a review guide at the end of each chapter.   <br \/>  Appropriate as a primary text in undergraduate courses on the theology of the family, marriage and family, and ethics courses with a similar focus.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>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:<br \/>\u2022\t marriage as covenant<br \/>\u2022\tthe model of Jesus&#8217; love for marital charity<br \/>\u2022\tcivil and ecclesial treatments of marriage<br \/>\u2022\tCatholic teaching of marriage as sacrament<br \/>\u2022\tdignity and human sexuality within marriage<br \/>\u2022\tthe family as domestic church<br \/>\u2022\tmarriage and family and issues of justice, divorce, forgiveness, and more<br \/>\u2022\tmodern marriage and its future<br \/>\n<strong>Chapter 1<\/strong>Introduction: Theology of Marriage and Family&#8211;What Is It and How Do We Do It?<br \/>Chapter 2<\/strong>Marriage as Covenant<br \/>Chapter 3<\/strong>Jesus&#8217; Love and Marital Charity<br \/>Chapter 4<\/strong>Historical Development and Marriage<br \/>Chapter 5<\/strong>Marriage as Sacrament<br \/>Chapter 6<\/strong>Modern Marriage and How We Got Here<br \/>Chapter 7<\/strong>Dignity and Human Sexuality within Marriage<br \/>Chapter 8<\/strong>Conversion, Character, Commitment<br \/>Chapter 9<\/strong>Justice and Marriage<br \/>Chapter 10<\/strong>Domestic Church<br \/>Chapter 11<\/strong>Divorce and Forgiveness<br \/>Chapter 12<\/strong>Marriage and the Future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This text builds a foundational knowledge of theology while simultaneously developing major themes around the topics of marriage and family. The author speaks from the perspective of the sacramental theology of marriage but is always respectful of other faith traditions and the religiously diverse classroom. The book introduces, develops, and reinforces basic categories for thinking about the contemporary reality of marriage and family as grounded in the scriptural, historical, theological, ecclesial, and spiritual traditions of Christianity. Sensitive issues such as human sexuality and divorce are treated with a contextually grounded and moderate point of view. A meaningful correlation is made between the classical sources of Christianity and the lived experience of marriage. Included are discussion questions and a review guide at the end of each chapter.   <br \/>  Appropriate as a primary text in undergraduate courses on the theology of the family, marriage and family, and ethics courses with a similar focus.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>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:<br \/>\u2022\t marriage as covenant<br \/>\u2022\tthe model of Jesus&#8217; love for marital charity<br \/>\u2022\tcivil and ecclesial treatments of marriage<br \/>\u2022\tCatholic teaching of marriage as sacrament<br \/>\u2022\tdignity and human sexuality within marriage<br \/>\u2022\tthe family as domestic church<br \/>\u2022\tmarriage and family and issues of justice, divorce, forgiveness, and more<br \/>\u2022\tmodern marriage and its future<br \/>\n<strong>Chapter 1<\/strong>Introduction: Theology of Marriage and Family&#8211;What Is It and How Do We Do It?<br \/>Chapter 2<\/strong>Marriage as Covenant<br \/>Chapter 3<\/strong>Jesus&#8217; Love and Marital Charity<br \/>Chapter 4<\/strong>Historical Development and Marriage<br \/>Chapter 5<\/strong>Marriage as Sacrament<br \/>Chapter 6<\/strong>Modern Marriage and How We Got Here<br \/>Chapter 7<\/strong>Dignity and Human Sexuality within Marriage<br \/>Chapter 8<\/strong>Conversion, Character, Commitment<br \/>Chapter 9<\/strong>Justice and Marriage<br \/>Chapter 10<\/strong>Domestic Church<br \/>Chapter 11<\/strong>Divorce and Forgiveness<br \/>Chapter 12<\/strong>Marriage and the Future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[3229,221,694,3233,3227,3225],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17478","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-anselm-academic","6":"product_cat-bc","7":"product_cat-rel000000","8":"product_cat-rel012050","9":"product_cat-rel012100","10":"product_cat-saint-marys-press","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tepbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/17478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tepbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tepbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tepbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tepbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17478"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tepbooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}