From Culture Wars to Common Ground

by Browning, Don S.; Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J.; Couture, Pamela D.; Lyon, K. Brynolf; Franklin, Robert M.; Browning, Don S.

• ISBN13: 9780664256517
• ISBN10: 0664256511
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Author Biography

Don S. Browning is Alexander Campbell Professor of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago Divinity School Bonnie J. Miller-Mclemore is Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Nashville Pamela D. Couture is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology, Colgate Rochester Divinity School K. Brynolf Lyon is Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis Robert M. Franklin is President of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(28)
PART 1 THE ISSUES	29	(72)
1. The Family (1990-1996): From a Conservative to a Liberal Issue	29	(21)
2. The Family Crisis: Who Understands It?	50	(23)
3. Religion and the Ideal Family: Nineteenth-Century Variations in North America	73	(28)
PART 2 TRADITIONS	101	(56)
4. Love, Christian Family Theory, and Evolutionary Psychology	101	(28)
5. Honor, Shame, and Equality in Early Christian Families	129	(28)
PART 3 THE VOICES	157	(114)
6. Feminism, Religion, and the Family	157	(33)
7. Families and the Therapeutic	190	(29)
8. Christian Profamily Movements: The Black Church, Roman Catholics, and the Christian Right	219	(28)
9. Economic Voices: State Family, Market Family, and Civil Society	247	(24)
PART 4 DIRECTIONS	271	(64)
10. A Practical Theology of Families	271	(35)
11. Critical Familism: New Directions for Church and Society	306	(29)
Notes	335	(42)
Index	377