Christian Kinship

Family-Relatedness in Christian Practice and Moral Thought

Rev’d Dr David A. Torrance (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2024
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-69984-8 (ISBN)

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Ideas of kinship play a significant role in structuring everyday life, and yet kinship has been neglected in Christian ethics, moral philosophy and bioethics. Attention has been paid in these disciplines to the ethics of ‘family,’ but with little regard to the evidence that kinship varies widely from culture-to-culture, suggesting that it is, in fact, culturally constructed.

Surveying notions of shared substance (e.g. blood ties), house, gender and personhood, as theorised and practiced in the Christian tradition, Torrance critiques the special privileging of the ‘blood tie’. In the place of European and American cultural assumptions to the contrary, it is kinship in Christ that is presented as the basis of a truly Christian account for social ties. Torrance also aims to stimulate the moral imagination to consider Christian kinship might be lived out in miniature, in everyday life.

David A. Torrance is a Mission Partner with Church Mission Society, working in theological education in Tanzania.

Introduction:
The Neglect of Kinship in Theological Ethics

Chapter 1:
What is Kinship?

Chapter 2:
Shedding Blood? Kinship and Substance

Chapter 3:
The Christian Household and the Reimagining of Kinship

Chapter 4:
Gendered Relatedness

Chapter 5:
Persons in Christ: Kinship by Baptism

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-567-69984-6 / 0567699846
ISBN-13	978-0-567-69984-8 / 9780567699848
Zustand	Neuware