Author: Don S. Browning
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: marriage, family, religion, globalization, modernization, threatens
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2003-03
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0802811124
ISBN-13: 9780802811127
The processes of modernization and globalization promise more wealth and health for many people. But they are also a threat to the stability and quality of marriage and family life. This new book — at once sobering and constructive — looks at the impact of these processes on marriage and asks what Christianity, in cooperation with other religions, can do to strengthen married life today. Among the deleterious effects of modernization and globalization on marriage are a worldwide drift of men away from the responsibility of parenthood and the tendency of mothers too readily to take on th
Authors:John Witte Jr., Robert M. Kingdon,
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: marriage, family, engagement, religion, series, courtship, calvin, life, john, sex, geneva
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2005-10-15
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0802848036
ISBN-13: 9780802848031
You wouldn’t expect it from his dour reputation, but John Calvin transformed the Western concept of sex, marriage, and family life. This fascinating, even sensational volume comprehensively treats the new theology and law that Calvin and his fellow reformers established in sixteenth-century Geneva. Calvin made marriage and divorce, children’s welfare, and sexual sin matters of both church and state, and many of the reforms that he and others initiated — new rights and duties for wives in the bedroom, fault-based divorce on grounds of adultery and desertion, protection for impo
Author: Glenn T Stanton
Publisher: NavPress
Keywords: marriage, society, postmodern, reasons, matters, believe
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1576830187
ISBN-13: 9781576830185
SHE COOKS, CLEANS AND PAYS HIM RENT, BUT SHE’S NOT HIS WIFE. HE’S HER FATHER, BUT THEY’VE NEVER MET. THEY SAY THEY LOVE EACH OTHER, BUT HAVE THE OPTION TO LEAVE IF THINGS GET ROUGH. Marriage is in trouble. Labeled old-fashioned, out-dated, and irrelevant, marriage is being abandoned for divorce, living together, single parenting, and sexual freedom. Lasting marriages, which used to be esteemed as the building block of society, are disappearing at an alarming rate. Drawing from one hundred years of social science research, Why Marriage Matters examines the state of m
Author: Stephanie Coontz
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: marriage, conquered, history, love
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 014303667X
ISBN-13: 9780143036678
Marriage has never been more fragile. But the same things that have made it so have also made a good marriage more fulfilling than ever before. In this enlightening and hugely entertaining book, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the sexual torments of Victorian couples to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is-and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was only 200 years ago that marriage began to be about love and emotional commitment, and since then the very things
Author: Stephanie Coontz
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: marriage, conquered, love, obedience, history, intimacy
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-05-19
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 067003407X
ISBN-13: 9780670034079
Marriage today is held up as a blissful haven of love and friendship, sex and stability. We long for the gold standard, the traditional marriage but marriage turns out to have a checkered past-the "traditional marriage" was evanescent. This real look at what people think of as "traditional" finally explains why so many married people are so unsatisfied. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning historian Stephanie Coontz takes us on an eye- opening journey from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the sexual torments of Victorian lovers to the current debates over the mea
Author: Andrew J. Cherlin
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: marriage, america, family, state, round
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0307266893
ISBN-13: 9780307266897
From one of the nation’s leading experts on the American family, a book that explores the state of marriage in America today; its evolution culturally; and with regard to religion and the law, how and why the present state of marriage—a merry-go-round of partnerships—developed, and the implications for parents and children.During Andrew J. Cherlin’s three decades of study and analysis of family life, he came to see that marriage in the United States was different than in other Western countries—Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—in a way that no one was writing abou
Authors:Glenn T. Stanton, Dr. Bill Maier,
Publisher: IVP Books
Keywords: marriage, parenting, sex, case, trial
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2004-09-09
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0830832742
ISBN-13: 9780830832743
As the debate escalates over same-sex marriage and a constitutional marriage amendment, you typically hear about people being either for or against the issue. We rarely, however, hear concrete reasons why same-sex marriage is or is not a good idea. Using current social science research, Glenn T. Stanton and Dr. Bill Maier offer such a case against same-sex marriage and parenting in their book "Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting." Using a question-answer format, they provide answers to the issues at the center of the debate, including *How does homosexual
