Equality and the Family

In "Equality and the Family" Don Browning pulls together essays he has published in the past in order to shed light on the path we should take in the future. He contends that practical theology can be envisioned as a practical research program, and he uses the very concrete example of the family to illustrate how this works.Though it may sound unlikely that equality in the family can be based on Christian ideas, Browning insists that it can and that it should. His desire is to be pro-family and pro-marriage in ways that create justice and equality within the family. Based on this goal, he argues for the church's ideal model of the mother-father partnership to be balanced with an understanding and acceptance of the pluralism of family forms as a part of modern life, including church life. A brief introduction of each essay is included to help the reader understand the original context of the piece.

Toward a fundamental and strategic practical theology (1991)	p. 3
Empirical considerations in religious praxis and reflection (2005)	p. 31
The family debate : a middle way (1993)	p. 51
Is the family a conservative issue? : (1994)	p. 61
Better family values (1995)	p. 75
Children, mothers, and fathers in the postmodern family (1995)	p. 84
Practical theology and the American family debate (1997)	p. 103
Altruism, civic virtue, and religion (1995)	p. 131
Narrative, ethics, and biology in Christian family theory (1996)	p. 154
The dialectic of archaeology and teleology in Christian marriage symbolism (2001)	p. 194
Can marriage be defined? : (2002)	p. 207
The task of religious institutions in strengthening families (1999)	p. 223
Modernization : critical familism and the reconstruction of marriage (2003)	p. 244
Egos without selves : a critique of the family theory of the Chicago school of economics (1994)	p. 263
Families and the sixty-hour workweek : what it means for church, society, and persons (2002)	p. 283
The language of health versus the language of religion : competing models of marriage in the twenty-first century (2002)	p. 297
Critical familism, civil society, and the law (2004)	p. 312
The meaning of the family in the universal declaration of human rights (2004)	p. 327
Adoption and the moral significance of kin altruism (2005)	p. 347
Domestic violence and the ethic of equal regard (2005)	p. 374
The relation of practical theology to theological ethics (2005)	p. 391
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