Jana Marguerite Bennett: 3 books

Book cover of Singleness and the Church

Singleness and the Church

A New Theology of the Single Life

by Jana Marguerite Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017

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...
Book cover of Water Is Thicker than Blood

Water Is Thicker than Blood

An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singlehood

by Jana Marguerite Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008

This book considers how homes, households, and domestic life are related to the Church. Early theologies glorified the monastic lifestyle as a way to transcend earthly attachments in favor of supernatural goods. Contemporary thinkers have seen that functioning marriages and families themselves can...
Book cover of Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Fruits of the Spirit and Church Choice

by Jana Marguerite Bennett, Melissa Musick Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice. The premise of consumer choice is that somewhere the perfect fit between product and purchaser exists. In the books on changing traditions the consumerist tone prevails--fundamentalists looking...
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