Marriage At The Crossroads

Author : Aída Besançon Spencer,William David Spencer,Steven Tracy,Celestia Tracy
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830878543

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Marriage at the Crossroads by Aída Besançon Spencer,William David Spencer,Steven Tracy,Celestia Tracy Pdf

Have you ever wondered how egalitarian and complementarian marriages play out differently on a day-to-day level? In this unique book AÍda and William Spencer and Steve and Celestia Tracy, two couples from the differing perspectives of egalitarianism and soft complementarianism, share a constructive dialogue about marriage in practice. They cover a variety of topics like marriage discipleship, headship and submission, roles and decision-making, and intimacy in marriage. Also included are responses from three additional cultural frameworks: North American Hispanic, Korean American and African American. Whether you're still working out your views on marriage or have found an approach you're comfortable with, this book will help you better understand the two perspectives on the ground level. While the theological starting points are different, you may be surprised to see the degree of convergence on practical issues as the dialogue unfolds.

Author : Marsha Garrison,Elizabeth S. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781107018273

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Marriage at the Crossroads by Marsha Garrison,Elizabeth S. Scott Pdf

The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be born into relatively stable marital unions while the children of less educated, poorer individuals are increasingly born and raised in more fragile, nonmarital households. The interdisciplinary approach offered by this edited volume provides tools to inform the debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about marriage at a critical juncture. Drawing on the expertise of social scientists and legal scholars, the book will be a key text for anyone who seeks to understand marriage as a social institution and to evaluate proposals for marriage reform.

Author : Wilhelm Stekel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Love
ISBN : UOM:39015000673759

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Author : Marsha Garrison,Elizabeth S. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139789455

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Marriage at the Crossroads by Marsha Garrison,Elizabeth S. Scott Pdf

The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be born into relatively stable marital unions while the children of less educated, poorer individuals are increasingly born and raised in more fragile, nonmarital households. The interdisciplinary approach offered by this edited volume provides tools to inform the debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about marriage at a critical juncture. Drawing on the expertise of social scientists and legal scholars, the book will be a key text for anyone who seeks to understand marriage as a social institution and to evaluate proposals for marriage reform.

Author : Albert Y. Hsu
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830813535

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Singles at the Crossroads by Albert Y. Hsu Pdf

Albert Y. Hsu provides a balanced, biblical understanding of Christian singleness that debunks the myth of the "gift of singleness" and honors singleness as a status equal to marriage. Includes an interview with John Stott.

Author : Marsha Garrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Marriage
ISBN : 1139778099

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Marriage at the Crossroads by Marsha Garrison Pdf

This book provides tools to inform debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about the institution of marriage.

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385693769

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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND THE GUARDIAN Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads. It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high school class, has veered into the era's counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threaten to complicate. By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. Set in a historical moment of moral crisis and reaching back to the early twentieth century, Crossroads is a sweeping investigation of human mythologies as the Hildebrandt family navigates the political, intellectual, and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years.

Author : Marsha Garrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Marriage
ISBN : 1139779613

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Marriage at the Crossroads by Marsha Garrison Pdf

This book provides tools to inform debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about the institution of marriage.

Author : Daniela R. Roher,Susan E. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Couples therapy
ISBN : 1466413824

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Couples at the Crossroads by Daniela R. Roher,Susan E. Schwartz Pdf

Using the metaphor of love as a road trip, Roher and Schwartz explain why couples encounter relationship roadblocks, what causes them and how to break through them to continue on a journey filled with understanding, acceptance and renewed love.

Author : Nelia Hyndman-Rizk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498522755

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Lebanese Women at the Crossroads by Nelia Hyndman-Rizk Pdf

Thirty years after the end of the civil war, Lebanese women are still struggling for gender equality. This study builds on recent scholarship on women’s activism in the Arab world, in the context of the Arab Spring. It examines how discourses of secularism and equal civil rights have informed the contemporary Lebanese women’s movement in their campaigns for a domestic violence law, women’s nationality rights, a women’s quota in parliament, the reform of personal status law and the recognition of civil marriage. This book argues that women are caught between sect and nation, due to Lebanon’s plural legal system, which makes a division between religious and civil law. While both jurisdictions allocate women relational rights, guided by the logic of patrilineal descent, women’s inequality is central to the reproduction of sectarian difference and patriarchal control within the confessional political system, as a whole.

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385693752

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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The highly anticipated new novel from one of our greatest living writers. It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has veered into the era's counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. Universally recognized as the leading novelist of his generation, Jonathan Franzen is often described as a teller of family stories. Only now, though, in Crossroads, has he given us a novel in which a family, in all the intricacy of its workings, is truly at the centre. By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. Complete in itself, set in a historical moment of moral crisis, and reaching back to the early twentieth century, Crossroads serves as a foundation for a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigates the political, intellectual and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years. Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.

Author : Darrin W. Snyder Belousek
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493429127

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Marriage, Scripture, and the Church by Darrin W. Snyder Belousek Pdf

This book takes a distinctive approach to the same-sex-union debate by framing the issue as a matter of marriage. Darrin Snyder Belousek demonstrates that the interpretation of Scripture affects whether the church should revise its doctrine of marriage for the sake of sanctioning same-sex union. Engaging charitably yet critically with opposing viewpoints, he delves deeply into what marriage is, what it is for, and what it means as presented in the biblical narrative and the theological tradition, articulating a biblical-traditional theology of marriage for the contemporary church. Afterword by Wesley Hill.

Author : Amy Sutherland
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780812978087

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What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage by Amy Sutherland Pdf

While observing trainers of exotic animals, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used their techniques with the human animals in her own life–specifically her dear husband, Scott? As Sutherland put training principles into action, she noticed that not only did her twelve-year-old marriage improve, but she herself became more optimistic and less judgmental. What started as a goofy experiment had such good results that Sutherland began using the training techniques with all the people in her life, including her mother, her friends, her students, even the clerk at the post office. Full of fun facts, fascinating insights, hilarious anecdotes, and practical tips, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage reveals the biggest lesson Sutherland learned: The only animal you can truly change is yourself.

Author : Renata Grossi
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781925021820

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Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage by Renata Grossi Pdf

This book examines the (in)visibility of romantic love in the legal discourse surrounding modern Australian marriage. It looks at how romantic love has become a core part of modernity, and a dominant part of the Western marriage discourse, and considers how the ideologies of romantic love are (or are not) replicated in the legal meaning of marriage. This examination raises two key issues. If love has become central to people’s understanding of marriage, then it is important for the legitimacy of law that love is reflected in both the content and application of the law. More fundamentally, it requires us to reconsider how we understand law, and to ask whether it is engaged with emotions, or separate from them. Along the way this book also considers the meaning of love itself in contemporary society, and asks whether love is a radical force capable of breaking down conservative meanings embedded in institutions like marriage, or whether it simply mirrors them. This book will be of interest to everyone working on love, marriage and sexuality in the disciplines of law, sociology and philosophy.

Author : Lawrence Birnbach,Beverly Hyman
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781402781513

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How to Know If It's Time to Go by Lawrence Birnbach,Beverly Hyman Pdf

A controversial look at whether a marriage can be saved—or if its “time to go.” For the millions caught in unhappy marriages, consumed by sadness, anger, and fear, the question haunts: “Should I divorce?” Now, in their insightful new book, a husband-and-wife team of marriage experts helps readers find the answer by taking them through ten steps to determine if their relationship has reached the breaking point. While Drs. Birnbach and Hyman do not advocate divorce, they point out that the most desirable situation—a happy long-term marriage—may simply not be possible in some cases. The book also discusses how the lives of people who stay in chronically unhappy marriages compare with those who split up. Filled with poignant case studies, cutting-edge research, and a 100-question self-assessment to determine if its “time to go,” this unique guide dispels the myths about divorce and enables readers to recognize if there is still hope . . . or if they (and their families) are better off apart.