An authentic vision for today's family Thoughtful and informative,
Cahill's work brings fresh historical, theological, and ethical
thought to the explosive area of family-deeply contested territory
in today's cultural and religious skirmishes. As one group of
social theorists and cultural critics points to rising divorce and
illegitimacy rates as symptoms of unfettered individualism and
moral laxity, another side notes that the "traditional," nuclear
family is actually a product of the industrial age, with its strict
gender roles, public-private split, and exclusion of an underclass.
In the religious arena, evangelical- conservative vs.
mainline-feminist lines echo these battles, contesting the
authentic meaning of family within a Christian framework. Though
"family" has been dissected in the academic and cultural wars,
Cahill asserts that the usual religious agenda of restoring the
traditional nuclear family is actually misinformed and misguided.
It actually bolsters oppressive social, economic, and racial
mechanisms that are destroying families at the bottom, middle, and
even top of the ladder. Is there an authentically Christian notion
of family? Cahill's contribution shows in a striking way how very
different we are counter-cultural New Testament and early- church
notions of family from our ideas of "family values;" how,
throughout history, other fruitful Christian examples have emerged
in the work of John Chrysostom, Martin Luther, and the Puritans;
how, despite distortion by gender and class divisions, there
develops a Christian vision of the altruistic family, animated by
Christian discipleship to stand for compassion, generosity, and
justice; how pertinent this vision of the "domestic church" is to
public debate and public policy.
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