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Perspectives on Marriage
A Reader

Third Edition

Edited by Kieran Scott and Michael Warren

Price: £26.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-531346-8
Publication date: 16 November 2006
480 pages,

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Description
This collection is ideal for courses in the theology and spirituality of marriage. The topics covered include marriage in its historical context; the meanings and transitions of marriage; attitudes towards sexuality; communication and conflict, and divorce and annulment.

Contents
* New to this edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Marriage in Historical Perspective
1. Marriage in the Bible , Michael G. Lawler
2. The Primitive Christian Understanding of Marriage , Theodore Mackin, S.J.
3. Marriage: A Historical Survey , Joseph Martos
Part Two: Contemporary Perspectives on the Theology of Marriage
4. Christian Marriage: Basic Sacrament , Bernard Cooke
* 5. "Nuptial Pentecost": Theological Reflections on the Presence and Action of the Holy Spirit in Christian Marriage , Julie McCarty
Part Three: Marriage: Meanings and Transitions
6. Marriage versus Living Together , Jo McGowan
7. Marriage Preparation and Cohabiting Couples: Information Report , NCCB Marriage and Family Committee
* 8. Cohabitation and Marriage as a Life-Process , Kieran Scott
9. The Meaning of Marriage , Evelyn Eaton Whitehead and James D. Whitehead
* 10. The Meaning of Marriage: Of Two Minds , Edward C. Vacek
* 11. Same-Sex Marriage: Threat or Aspiration? , Stephen J. Pope
* 12. Marriage Becomes a Journey , Evelyn Eaton Whitehead and James D. Whitehead
Part Four: Attitudes toward Sexuality
* 13. Sex Matters: The Riches of the Catholic Sexual Tradition , Sidney Callahan
14. A Revolution's Broken Promises , Peter Marin
15. Passionate Attachments in the West in Historical Perspective , Lawrence Stone
16. Four Mischievous Theories of Sex: Demonic, Divine, Casual, and Nuisance , William F. May
17. The Neglected Heart: The Emotional Dangers of Premature Sexual Involvement , Thomas Lickona
* 18. Sex, Time, and Meaning: A Theology of Dating , Jason King and Donna Freitas
19. Beyond Romance to Human Love , Robert A. Johnson
20. The Transmission of Life , Pope John Paul II
Part Five: Communication, Conflict, and Change
* 21. How People Change , Allen Wheelis
22. "Put Down That Paper and Talk to Me!": Rapport-Talk and Report-Talk , Deborah Tannen
23. Communication and Conflict , Evelyn Eaton Whitehead and James D. Whitehead
24. Communication , Thomas N. Hart and Kathleen Fischer Hart
25. The Battered Woman: Myths and Reality , Lenore E. Walker
26. Men Who Make Women Want to Scream , Connell Cowan and Melvin Kinder
* 27. Going to the Therapist En Route to the Altar , Zoë Wolff
* Part Six: Issues Impacting Marriage
* 28. Watching New Love as it Sears the Brain , Benedict Carey
* 29. You're Getting Married: The Wal-Martization of the Bridal Business , Rebecca Mead
* 30. Money, Marriage, and Making a Future: The Letter to Emily , Michael Warren
Part Seven: Commitment, Divorce, and Annulment
31. What God Has Joined Together. . . , Bernard Cooke
32. The Meaning of Commitment , Margaret Farley
33. Annulment: The Process and Its Meaning , Patrick R. Lagges
34. Remarried Catholics: Searching for Church Belonging , James J. Young
* 35. Divorce and Remarriage in the Catholic Church: Ten Theses , Michael G. Lawler
36. Children after Divorce: Wounds That Don't Heal , Judith S. Wallerstein
Part Eight: Spirituality of Marriage
37. Spirituality and Lifestyle , Evelyn Eaton Whitehead and James D. Whitehead
* 38. Faithful Becoming: Forming Families in the Art of Paradoxical Living in a Fragmented and Pluralistic World , Herbert Anderson
Part Nine: Religious Traditions: Perspectives on Marriage
39. Marriage in the Jewish Tradition , Blu Greenberg
40. The Protestant View of Marriage , Wilson Yates
41. Marriage in Islam , Lois Lamya Ibsen al Faruqi

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Kieran Scott, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Education, Fordham University and
Michael Warren, Professor of Theology, St. John's University


Links to web resources and related information
More in the same subject area:
Christian theology
Moral theology
Religious rites & ceremonies
Marriage
Sexual relations

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