The Meaning of Singleness

Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church

von Danielle Treweek

336 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

2024 Australian Christian Book of the Year Is Christian singleness a burden to be endured or a God-ordained vocation? Might singleness here and now give the church a glimpse of God's heavenly promises?Dani Treweek offers biblical, historical, cultural, and theological reflections to retrieve a theology of singleness for the church today. Drawing upon both ancient and contemporary theologians, including Augustine, Ælfric of Eynsham, John Paul II, and Stanley Hauerwas, she contends not only that singleness has served an important role throughout the church's history, but that single Christians present the church with a foretaste of the eschatological reality that awaits all of God's people.Far from being a burden, then, Christian singleness is among the highest vocations of the faith.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Christentum Christliches Leben und christliche Praxis
• ISBN: 9781514004852
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.05.2023
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: IVP Academic