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    The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home
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    The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home
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    The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home

    By Jack O. Balswick and Judith K. Balswick

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    About this ebook

    Two respected senior professors in the marriage and family field cover every issue that affects family life, including marriage, parenting, sexuality, communication, social dynamics, and family life in modern society. This proven resource for studying the most established of human institutions has been in print for over twenty years, with over 80,000 copies sold. The fourth edition has been updated to address current family-related issues and refined to reflect teaching practices for the contemporary classroom, including updated references to online resources.

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    "An excellent resource for preachers and teachers and an obvious choice for a text in family studies in a Christian college."--Calvin Theological Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9781441245625
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    The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home
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    Jack O. Balswick

    Jack O. Balswick (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is senior professor of sociology and family development at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He has twice received an American Senior Fulbright Scholar Fellowship. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family, Family Relations, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and Review of Religious Research. He has authored or coauthored articles in over seventy professional publications and has presented papers at conferences around the world. He is author or coauthor of seventeen books, including Men at the Crossroads, The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home, The Gift of Gender, Social Problems: A Christian Understanding and Response, Relationship-Empowerment Parenting, Authentic Human Sexuality, The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in Theological Perspective and A Model for Marriage: Covenant, Grace, Empowerment and Intimacy.

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    • 4/5
      Good book with useful information, and easy to understand. But the graphs were hard to understand, and I couldn't avoid the thought that the female author contributed mostly to authorship, because of her penchant for belittling men. I got the feeling that she has some inner animosity toward men, and was living it out in the book. For example, the book blames men for accessing Playboy magazine, but says absolutely nothing about the promiscuous women who made this possible. I think this book leans toward feminist ideology, even though it claims to be Christian in outlook. The good think about the book is that it reveals insightful information about human conduct by referencing numerous studies.