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Mutuality Matters - Family, Faith, and Just Love (Paperback, New)
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Mutuality Matters - Family, Faith, and Just Love (Paperback, New)
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Married and family life around the world has undergone a revolution
in the last several decades: the radical democratization of
intimacy in spousal and parent-child relationships. Previous
principles of hierarchy, inequality, and duty that defined the
relationships between husband, wife, and children have been
challenged and often replaced by more fluid bonds of equality,
intimacy, emotional self-disclosure, communication, and mutual
trust. The key question that has emerged for our times, then, is
how exactly do families sustain genuine mutuality, democracy, and
strong relationships? Figuring out good answers to this question is
the major theme of this book and the origin of the title Mutuality
Matters. Three common strategies for creating just marriages have
arisen: political and legal reform, smarter negotiating by women,
and new cultural perceptions of marriage. While the authors in this
book attend to all three strategies to different degrees, the
primary focus is the third strategy: changing our cultural
understanding of women and men in marriage. Moreover, to effect
genuine cultural change, the authors recognize the need to enlist
the help of religion as a key culture-forming element. Mutuality
has become a common way for theologians from a variety of
perspectives to talk about a more just love, a love that combines
affection and justice. But many questions have been left
unanswered: What exactly do people believe they have promised when
they align themselves with Christian claims about love in their
rituals of marriage and partnership? Do Christian views of love
include the ideal of justice in marriage? Because accommodation or
sacrifice is inevitable in any intimate human community, how can
families insure that it will be mutual and just? How is marriage
strengthened if justice is added to love at the core of mutuality?
What does mutuality mean across time and distance, when
participants are parents and children, when fathers are absent,
when parents should be honored, or within a violent context? Is it
possible to have democratic families without mutual sacrifice? Can
submission be mutual? On these and other questions, the authors of
this volume claim distinctive responsibility for rethinking
Christian convictions about love and family life around the theme
of mutuality and for strengthening the ministry of religious
communities as those communities seek to empower and support
families in their practice of mutuality. The essays written for
this volume reflect the development of practical theology as one
method for exploring the religious meanings of family and enhancing
the practice of family living by 1) assuming that all theory has
implications for practice and all practices are theory laden and 2)
drawing into dialogue the knowledge and interpretations of a
variety of perspectives including philosophy, biblical criticism,
anthropology, liturgical studies, pastoral care, ethics,
cross-cultural studies, and religious education. This collection of
essays is noteworthy for both this interdisciplinary scope and its
richly ecumenical representation.
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