Singleness and the Church: A New Theology of the Single Life

by Jana Marguerite Bennett

Book Overview

Despite the fact that almost half of all Americans are single, singleness remains an often overlooked oddity in American culture and in Christian communities. Christians ought to be the people who most support singleness, given what scripture and tradition suggest, but this does not seem to be the case. In this exciting new book, Jana Marguerite Bennett examines a variety of usually forgotten models of singleness: the never-married, the casually uncommitted,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190462620
• ISBN13: 9780190462628
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"