Families at the Crossroads - Beyond Tradition Modern Options

"Scant decades ago most Westerners agreed that . . . Lifelong monogamy was ideal . . . Mothers should stay home with children . . . premarital sex was to be discouraged . . . Heterosexuality was the unquestioned norm . . . popular culture should not corrupt children. Today not a single one of these expectations is uncontroversial" writes author Rodney Clapp.

In response many evangelicals have been quick to defend the so-called traditional family, assuming that it exemplifies the biblical model. Clapp challenges that assumption, arguing that the "traditional" family is a reflection more of the nineteenth-century middle-class family than of any family one can find in Scripture. At the same time, he recognizes that many modern and postmodern options are not acceptable to Christians. Returning to the biblical story afresh to see what it might say to us in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Clapp articulates a challenge to both sides of a critical debate.

Named one of the Best Books of 1995 by the London Bible College Bookshop.

About the author

Rodney Clapp is an editor with Cascade Books. He is the author of several prize-winning books, most recently Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation.

Product details

• Authors: Rodney Clapp, Rodney R Clapp, Rodney R. Clapp
• Publisher: Ivp
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.1993
• EAN: 9780830816552
• ISBN: 978-0-8308-1655-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 300 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Familie und Gesundheit, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, RELIGION / Christian Life / Family, Religion - Marriage & Family