TY  - GEN
T1  - The family and Christian ethics
T2  - New studies in Christian ethics.
A1  - Schaafsma, Petruschka
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009324595
AB  - 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.
OP  - 321
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2023).
CN  - BJ1278.F3 S335 2023
SN  - 9781009324595 (ebook)
SN  - 9781009324618 (hardback)
SN  - 9781009324601 (paperback)
SN  - 9781009324618
KW  - Families : Religious aspects : Christianity.
KW  - Families in literature.
KW  - Christian ethics.
KW  - Mystery.
ER  -