Table of Contents

Preface; Nature, Marital Unity, & Contract in Modern Political Thought; Locke & the Invention of the Modern Family; Rousseau & the Romance of Family Life; Hegel's Modern Marital Unity: More Than a Contract, Less Than a Sacrament; In Hegel's Shadow: French Sociologists & Positivist Defences of the Family; The City & the Soul Mate: Mill's Late Liberal Vision; Marx, Engels, & the Abolition of the Family; Freud, Russell, & the Liberated Family; Feminism & the Family; Positivism Supplemented: Anatomy, Evolution, & the Family; A Second Sailing?: Recovering Marital Unity & the Purposes of the Family; What Is to Be Thought?: Tensions & Lessons; Index.

About the Author

James William McClendon, Jr. was a Christian theologian in the Anabaptist tradition and the author of several important works, including Biography as Theology: How Life Stories Can Remake Today's Theology and Making Gospel Sense to a Troubled Church.

Reviews

"Warning to Those Schooled in Academic Theology: This Book Could Be Dangerous to Your Career if Taken Seriously. It is dangerous because McClendon refused to separate theology from the practice of the church. His display of Christian convictions forces our imaginations in new paths not envisioned in recent theology. We are in his debt." --Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School

The most significant such work by a Baptist theologian to date. No Baptist minister or theologically interested Baptist layperson should go without reading it. -- Steve Harmon -- Associated Baptist Press