What is involved in the practice of thinking theologically about marriage? Key writers and thinkers offer an informed, considered and constructive guide to a number of central questions, including: • Mike Higton on marriage, gender and Christian doctrine • Charlotte Metheun on what we can learn from the history of marriage • Ben Fulford on thinking about marriage with scripture • Julie Gittoes on the liturgical theology of marriage • John Bradbury on marriage as vocation • Brett Gray on reproduction and the body's grace • Susannah Cornwall on being faithful to our sexuate bodies • Rachel Muers on developing a contemporary theology of marriage and much more Reflecting a broad theological and eccesiological spectrum within the Christian tradition, Thinking Again About Marriage offers a vital resource for critical thinking and reflective practice.

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About the Authors

1. Introduction: Thinking Again About Marriage in Changing Times

2. Marriage, Gender and Doctrine

3. Thinking About Marriage: What Can We Learn from Christian History?

4. Thinking About Marriage with Scripture

5. Taking Time Over Marriage: Tradition, History and Time in Recent Debates

6. A Perfect Crown: Towards a Liturgical Theology of Marriage

7. Faithfulness to Our Sexuate Bodies: The Vocations of Generativity and Sex

8. An Ascetical Critique of the Concept of ‘Gender Complementarity’

9. Called to Become … A Vocational Theology of Marriage

10. Reproduction and the Body’s Grace

11. Marriage and English Law

12. Afterword: Setting Marriage in Context

Bibliography

What is involved in the practice of thinking theologically about marriage? Key writers and thinkers offer an informed, considered and constructive guide to a number of central questions, including:  
  
  
  
• Mike Higton on marriage, gender and Christian doctrine  
  
• Charlotte Metheun on what we can learn from the history of marriage  
  
• Ben Fulford on thinking about marriage with scripture  
  
• Julie Gittoes on the liturgical theology of marriage  
  
• John Bradbury on marriage as vocation  
  
• Brett Gray on reproduction and the body's grace  
  
• Susannah Cornwall on being faithful to our sexuate bodies  
  
• Rachel Muers on developing a contemporary theology of marriage and much more  
  
  
  
Reflecting a broad theological and eccesiological spectrum within the Christian tradition, Thinking Again About Marriage offers a vital resource for critical thinking and reflective practice.

Thinking Again About Marriage provides a serious but accessible exploration of the Christian theology of marriage and aims to guide readers into the practice of thinking theologically about marriage. Designed for undergraduate students and ordinands as well as clergy.

This book provides a serious but accessible exploration of the Christian theology of marriage, designed for undergraduate students and ordinands as well as clergy. The authors aim to guide readers into the practice of thinking theologically about marriage. They ask what is involved in thinking through marriage in the light of Scripture; what it means to draw on the Christian tradition; what it means to attend to the liturgical forms in which marriage is celebrated; and what it means to attend to experience theologically. This book fills a very clear gap in the market for a considered approach to the theology of marriage. It places the issues surrounding same-sex marriage in the context of a broader Christian theology of marriage and seeks to offer a resource for critical and constructive thinking. Chapters by these well-respected contributors are included: \* Commended for Study: Marriage In and Beyond Some Official Church Reports by Mike Higton \* One Man and One Woman? A History of Marriage by Charlotte Methuen \* Thinking About Marriage With Scripture by Ben Fulford \* A Way of Life Made Holy': Tradition, Time-Taking and Marriage in the Church of England by Frances Clemson \* "A Perfect Crown": Towards a Liturgical Theology of Marriage by Julie Gittoes \* Faithfulness to Sexuate Bodies: Generativity, Sex and Vocation by Susannah Cornwall \* "Gender Complementarity" in Marriage? Ascetical Challenges to a Modern Notion by Raphael Cadenhead \* Called to Become...A Vocational Theology of Marriage by John Bradbury \* Revisiting the Body's Grace by Brett Gray \* Marriage and the Law by Augur Pearce \* Toward a Theology of Marriage by Rachel Muers

John Bradbury is Director of Studies in Systematic Theology and Church History at Westminster College, Cambridge. Susannah Cornwall is Advanced Research Fellow in Theology and Religion, University of Exeter, and Director of EXCEPT -the Exeter Centre for Ethics and Practical Theology.

• A wide-ranging collection on the subject of the nature of marriage, a perennial subject. • Many books in recent years have concentrated on issues such as same-sex marriage or ethical issues such as divorce rather than explore marriage itself. • The authors are theologians and clergy based in key locations and institutions to promote the book.

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