Households of Faith
Practicing Family in the Kingdom of God
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 Many Christians have a gnawing sense that this "traditional family" model is problematic or outdated.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
- recovers biblical portraits of households of faith that are not limited to just the biological nuclear family, that can be multigenerational households of married and single, with or without children,
- acknowledges the realities of how sin and trauma damages families and communities, and
- calls Christians to practice family as apprentices to love who discern the times and improvise faithfulness together.
Emily Hunter McGowin (PhD, University of Dayton) is associate professor of theology at Wheaton College. She is the author of Quivering Families and Christmas, and coeditor of God and Wonder. Her articles have appeared in Christianity Today and The Week. She is a priest and canon theologian in the Anglican diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others. She and her husband, Ron, also a priest, live in Chicagoland with their three children.
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
"Resisting short-sighted stereotypes, Emily Hunter McGowin invites readers into an expansive and beautiful vision of the Christian family. Unafraid of facing imperfection, pointing readers toward the richness found in vulnerability and community, this book keeps it real. McGowin's image of 'apprenticeship to love' offers an especially rich way for any family to imagine—or re-imagine—their life together. She invites all readers, precisely in the midst of their own family's particular circumstances, to a way to ask, how will Jesus by his Spirit teach us to love today?" weniger anzeigen expand_less
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- Artikel-Nr.: SW9781514000076110164
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Emily Hunter McGowin
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- Verlag IVP
- Seitenzahl 256
- Veröffentlichung 28.01.2025
- ISBN 9781514000076