The Significance of Singleness: A Theological Vision for the Future of the Church
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Overview
The church needs to do a better job of speaking theologically to single Christians. Challenging prevailing evangelical assumptions about "the problem" of singleness, this book explains why the church needs single people and offers a contemporary theology of singleness relevant to all members of the church. Drawing on the examples of three important figures from the history of Christianity, the book helps today's church form a vision of life in the kingdom of God that is as theologically significant for single people as it is for those who are married.
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- Seeks to articulate the vision of singleness written about in Scripture
- Explores how the life of Christian singleness can serve as a picture of the gospel
- Examines why the topic of singleness is important to the church and hw it can participate in the discussion and dynamic
- Why Singleness?
- Macrina: Singleness and Community
- Perpetua: Singleness and Identity
- Lottie Moon: Singleness and Authority
- How Singleness Can Shape Us into Better Theologians
The best books are born of the most important questions. In The Significance of Singleness we are taken into the heart and mind of Dr. Hitchcock. Everyone everywhere asks and seeks to answer the questions, ‘Who are we?’ and ‘How are we to live?’ These questions are the heart of Hitchcock’s very thoughtful, richly theological,profoundly personal book. It is at the same time historically situated in the ancient, formative stories of church history and also attentive to the contemporary complexities of sexuality, marriage, and family. This is a book for those who feel stretched taut over the tensions of being both holy and human in the modern world.
—Steven Garber, Regent College; author of Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good
Hitchcock boldly asserts that the Holy Spirit’s empowering of people has never been limited by marital status. She builds a theology of singleness that challenges Western ideas of true love as always and exclusively sexual, and she rightly confronts our notion that marriage is the only proper foundation from which to build and nurture the church. The Significance of Singleness is an encouraging, unique, and thoughtful contribution to the literature on singleness.
—Lisa Graham McMinn, author of Sexuality and Holy Longing: Embracing Intimacy in a Broken World
In The Significance of Singleness, Christina Hitchcock challenges the church to rethink its understanding of both single life and married life. Hitchcock reminds us that we find our ultimate fulfillment and purpose not in earthly relationships but in our identity in Christ. This is a timely and impassioned argument that challenges an idolization of marriage prevalent in both contemporary church and society, while not belittling or relativizing marriage itself. Hitchcock’s work goes against the grain of much popular thought, but it runs along the grain of the deeper wisdom of Scripture, reminding readers that singleness provides a sign of the kingdom of God every bit as much as marriage does, and that both are necessary for the church’s witness to the gospel.
—Kimlyn J. Bender, George W. Truett Theological Seminary
- Title: The Significance of Singleness: A Theological Vision for the Future of the Church
- Author: Christina S. Hitchcock
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Resource ID: LLS:SGNFCNCSNGCHRCH
- Resource Type: Monograph
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