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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2023
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009324595
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Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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Book description

In this book, Petruschka Schaafsma offers an innovative appraisal of family. Eschewing the framework of worry and renewal that currently dominates family studies, she instead explores the topic through the concepts of 'givenness' and 'dependence'. 'Givenness' highlights the fact that family is not chosen; 'dependence' refers to being intimately included in each other's identities and lives. Both experiences are challenging, especially in a contemporary context, where independence and freedom to shape one's own life have become accepted ideals. Schaafsma shows the impasses to which these ideals lead in several disciplines – theology, philosophy, sociology, social anthropology and care ethics. She moves constructively beyond them by tapping literary, artistic and biblical sources for their insights on family. Grounded in a theological approach to family as 'mystery' rather than 'problem', she develops an understanding of the current controversial character of family that accounts for both its ordinary and transcendent character. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

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  • Family and Christian Ethics
    pp i-ii
  • New Studies in Christian Ethics - Series page
    pp iii-iv
  • Family and Christian Ethics - Title page
    pp v-v
  • Copyright page
    pp vi-vi
  • Dedication
    pp vii-viii
  • Contents
    pp ix-x
  • General Editor’s Preface
    pp xi-xiii
  • Acknowledgements
    pp xiv-xvi
  • Prologue - The Difficult Question of What Family Is About
    pp 1-11
  • Chapter 1 - Family as Mystery
    pp 12-85
  • Chapter 2 - The Family Tie as Mystery
    pp 86-152
  • Chapter 3 - Family and Givenness as Mystery
    pp 153-224
  • Chapter 4 - Family and Dependence as Mystery
    pp 225-287
  • Epilogue - Morality of Appeal and Answer
    pp 288-304
  • Ethics and the Sacred Character of Family as Mystery
  • Bibliography
    pp 305-316
  • Index
    pp 317-321
  • Titles published in the series (continued from page iii) - Series page
    pp 322-322

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