New Book: ‘The Children of Divorce: The Loss of Family as the Loss of Being’

07.26.2010, 11:28 AM

Excellent new offering by Andrew Root, assistant professor of youth and family ministry at Luther Seminary, published by Baker Academic.

Table of Contents

1. A History of the Family, a History of the Self

2. Marriage and Divorce in Late Modernity: Being and Action in Gidden’s Social Theory

3. Divorce as an Issue of Being: Ontological Security and the Loss of Self

4. Divorce and Theological Anthropology

5. Divorce and the Image of God: A Conversation between Theology and Object Relations Psychology

6. What Is to Be Done: The Church as a Community for the Broken

Andrew Root and I will be speakers at Luther Seminary’s First Third Dialogues in St. Paul, Minnesota September 27-29. Information and registration available at FirstThird.org.


One Response to “New Book: ‘The Children of Divorce: The Loss of Family as the Loss of Being’”

  1. Peter Hoh says:

    I’d love to attend, but it’s a bigger time commitment than I think I can make right now.