TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guerra,Anthony J
TI  - Family matters: the role of Christianity in the formation of the western family 
SN  - 9781557788108
AV  - BT707 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - St. Paul, Minnesota
PB  - Paragon House
KW  - Families
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
N1  - 1 (pages 169-179) and index; The Problem: The Contemporary Family  --; A Limited Option: Government and the Family  --; An Enduring Hope: The Social Sciences on Religion and Family  --; The Thousand-Year Campaign: The Church Battles to Reform Marriage  --; Augustus: Failed Imperial Family Policy  --; Jesus and Paul on the Family  --; Jesus: A Unique View of Marriage  --; Paul: An Egalitarian View of Marital Relations  --; Democratizing Elitist Sexual Ideals: Celibacy and the Power to Change Society  --; The Church Begins to Transform Marital Norms and Expectations: The Indissolubility of Marriage  --; The Sacralization of Marriage: The New Status Quo of the Family  --; The Recovery of Adam's Helpmate: The Rise of Companionate Marriage  --; Thomas Aquinas: Marriage as Friendship Between Equals  --; Erasmus: Woman as an Intellectual and Spiritual Partner to Man  --; The Reformation: Marriage More Pleasing to God than Celibacy  --; The Puritans: The Founding View of the American Family  --; The English Way  --; Puritans and the First American Families  --; Affirming the Importance of Marriage as a Spiritual and Carnal Union  --; The Bible and the Puritan Family  --; Covenant and Family: Marriage as Divinely Ordained  --; Husbands and Wives  --; The Puritan Legacy  --; The Great Awakenings: The Feminization of Religion and Family  --; Conclusion: The Shrinking Roles of Husbands and Fathers  --; And What of the Children?: Christianity and the Status of the Child in Western Society  --; Early Christianity Opposes Infanticide and Child Abandonment  --; Medieval Christian Images of the Child: A Trust From God; 2
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