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Not by Nature but by Grace - Forming Families through Adoption (Hardcover)
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Not by Nature but by Grace - Forming Families through Adoption (Hardcover)
Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
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Working from within the contours of Christian faith, this book
examines the relation between two ways of forming families-through
nature (by procreation) and through history (by adoption).
Christians honor the biological tie between parents and children,
for it is the work of God in creation. Yet Christians cannot forget
that it is adoption, and not simply natural descent, that is at the
center of the New Testament's depiction of God's grace. Gilbert
Meilaender takes up a range of issues raised by the practice of
adoption, always seeking to do justice to both nature and history
in the formation of families, while keeping at the center of our
vision the truth that it is not by nature but by grace that we can
become adopted children of the one whom Jesus called his Father.
Meilaender begins with reflection on the puzzling relation of
nature and history in forming families and proceeds to unpack the
meaning of huiothesia, the word used in the New Testament to name
the grace by which a follower of Jesus becomes an adopted child of
God. That perspective is applied to a range of questions that
regularly arise in Christian theological discussions of adoption:
Is adoption only for the infertile? Should single persons adopt? Is
it wise for adoption to take place across racial or national
boundaries? Special attention is paid to the relation between
adoption and new reproductive technologies and to what is called
"embryo adoption." Interspersed between the chapters are letters
written by the author to his own son by adoption. But if the
argument of the book is taken seriously, these letters are written
not to one who falls within a special category of "adopted son or
daughter," but to one who is, simply and entirely, a son or
daughter.
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