Preface
1 Young Love: Beyond the Fantasy of Romance
The Bad News
Perfect Love
Real Love
The Good News
2 Marriage: What Makes It Christian?
What Marriage Is
What Marriage Is Not
Thinking about Divorce
Love without Fear
3 Families: Telling the Stories that Have Shaped Us
Family Storytelling
The " Biblical Family"
Christian Families
Memory and Hope
4 Peace: Handling Conflict Constructively
Violence in Relationships
Men, Women and Conflict
Cooperation and Consensus
Dwelling in Safety
5 Friendship: From Acquaintance to Intimacy
Affection and Eros
Obstacles to Friendship
Establishing Connections
Choosing a Partner
6 Sex: Embodied Communion
Sexual Formation
Sex and Singleness
Sex and Marriage
Fidelity
7 Hospitality: Welcoming Children and Other Strangers
Why Christians Have Children
Contraception
What Children Need
Beyond Child Rearing
8 Households: Forming an Economic Partnership
Making a Living
Keeping the Books
Making a Home
Settling Down
9 Old Love: Growing Together into Maturity
Expectations
Traditions
Bearing Burdens
Bearing Fruit
Epilogue: Weddings
Subject Index
Scripture Index
Paperback
|25 June 2011
**Does God want to write your love story???Well, maybe not - especially not if it is the culture's romanticized ideal of happily ever after!**??Margaret and Dwight Peterson help us sort out the difference between how our surrounding society often depicts marriage and how Christians really should approach this particular gift...
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**Does God want to write your love story???Well, maybe not - especially not if it is the culture's romanticized ideal of happily ever after!**??Margaret and Dwight Peterson help us sort out the difference between how our surrounding society often depicts marriage and how Christians really should approach this particular gift...
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