Households of Faith
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A Holistic Vision of Family in God's Kingdom
The Christian world tends to have a blueprint for what families should look like, and these models of the family can be hard to live up to. In some circles, picture-perfect families are idealized and even idolatrized. Many Christians have a gnawing sense that this "traditional family" model is problematic or outdated. But is there an alternative way of understanding family that's neither idolatrous nor revisionist?
Theologian Emily McGowin casts a holistic vision for what family can be in light of God's kingdom. Jesus is our first teacher about families in the kingdom of God, and families rightly understand themselves only in relation to God's kingdom and the church.
In Households of Faith, McGowin
Introduction
Part 1: Rediscovering Family as Household of God
1. Searching for the Biblical Family
2. Beginning with Jesus
3. God's Kingdom and God's Family
4. Families as Apprentices to Love
Part 2: Signs of the Kingdom in an Evil Age
5. Families, Sin, and the Unjust Status Quo
6. Apprentices to Love in a Fallen World
7. Singleness and Marriage
8. Children and Childrearing
Part 3: Practicing Family in the Already and Not-Yet
9. Sabbath
10. Baptism
11. Eucharist
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Further Reading
Index