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From This Day Forward

[Paperback]

by Kimberly Bracken Long

Often sat through, but rarely listened to, the Christian Wedding service in in need of reexamination in this new book.

    • Author

      Kimberly Bracken Long

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Westminster John Knox

    • Published

      August 2016

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    Product Description

    Weddings have become a billion-dollar industry, with the average cost of a wedding estimated at $30,000. Taking into account dramatic shifts in attitudes toward marriage in recent years, many pastors are confused and frustrated about their role.

    This book offers a foundational understanding of marriage for today's North American church. Exploring current sociological analyses of marriage and the history of Christian marriage rites, Kimberly Bracken Long suggests that the church rethink its involvement in weddings and offers a distinctively Christian understanding of marriage.

    Today's church, Long contends, needs to reinterpret classic biblical metaphors and expand the range of scriptural sources that inform our understanding of marriage. Long also looks closely at each element of the wedding service and what makes a marriage liturgy faithful, inclusive, and sensitive to pastoral concerns. She provides practical suggestions for music and Scripture during wedding services as well as guidance on how to respond faithfully to those who are divorced or divorcing.

    Packed with constructive pastoral wisdom, From This Day Forward-Rethinking the Christian Wedding delivers a practical theology of marriage that will be of help to clergy, seminarians, and others interested in this topic.

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    • Author

      Kimberly Bracken Long

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Westminster John Knox

    • Published

      August 2016

    • Weight

      300g

    • Page Count

      204

    • Dimensions

      153 x 229 x 12 mm

    • ISBN

      9780664239305

    • ISBN-10

      0664239307

    • Eden Code

      4440061

    More Information

    • Author/Creator: Kimberly Bracken Long

    • ISBN: 9780664239305

    • Publisher: Westminster John Knox

    • Release Date: August 2016

    • Weight: 300g

    • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 12 mm

    • Eden Code: 4440061


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