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Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic
Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity|
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| Verlag: | IVP Academic |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 15.10.2024 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781514009130 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 240 |
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Beschreibungen
How we talk about human life matters.
In western post-Christian society, humans are thought of less like precious image bearers and more like commodities. The canary in the coal mine of this ideological shift is often women and children, which manifests itself in the seemingly built-in disdain towards motherhood and children for their lack of production of economically valuable goods.
However, the risk of this utilitarian approach to human life is not just outside the church, but within those spaces as well. Indeed, the commodification of human life within the contemporary body politic is so deeply embedded within the systems, even the church has lost touch with some of the ways it inherently devalues the lives of women and children.
Classics scholar Nadya Williams draws from voices both ancient and modern to illuminate how Christians can value human life amidst an empire that seeks to dehumanize that which is most precious. Bringing insights from the beliefs and practices of the early church in Greco-Roman context about motherhood, raising children, and human life, Williams suggests there is a way to recapture a vision that affirms the imago Dei in each person over and above our economic contribution to society.
In western post-Christian society, humans are thought of less like precious image bearers and more like commodities. The canary in the coal mine of this ideological shift is often women and children, which manifests itself in the seemingly built-in disdain towards motherhood and children for their lack of production of economically valuable goods.
However, the risk of this utilitarian approach to human life is not just outside the church, but within those spaces as well. Indeed, the commodification of human life within the contemporary body politic is so deeply embedded within the systems, even the church has lost touch with some of the ways it inherently devalues the lives of women and children.
Classics scholar Nadya Williams draws from voices both ancient and modern to illuminate how Christians can value human life amidst an empire that seeks to dehumanize that which is most precious. Bringing insights from the beliefs and practices of the early church in Greco-Roman context about motherhood, raising children, and human life, Williams suggests there is a way to recapture a vision that affirms the imago Dei in each person over and above our economic contribution to society.
<p>Acknowledgments<br />
1. Introduction<br /><b>Part 1: Symptoms of Disease</b><br />
2. Devaluing Pregnancy, Childbearing, and the Maternal Body <br />
3. Your Assembly-Line Life<br />
4. Motherhood and Creative Work; Motherhood Versus Creative Work <br /><b>Part 2: Views of Personhood in the Ancient Mediterranean Before and After Christianity</b><br />
5. Worthless: The Devaluing of Women, Children, and Human Beings in the Pre-Christian Mediterranean <br />
6. The Useless Ones: Devaluing Civilians in War and Peace<br />
7. The Redemption of Useless People<br /><b>Part 3: Speaking Life into a Culture of Death</b><br />
8. Consolation for the Weary Sufferer<br />
9. Seeking the City of God<br />
10. In Pursuit of Human Flourishing<br />
Conclusion: Who Is My Neighbor? Treasuring Children, Mothers, and All Image Bearers <br />
General Index</p>
1. Introduction<br /><b>Part 1: Symptoms of Disease</b><br />
2. Devaluing Pregnancy, Childbearing, and the Maternal Body <br />
3. Your Assembly-Line Life<br />
4. Motherhood and Creative Work; Motherhood Versus Creative Work <br /><b>Part 2: Views of Personhood in the Ancient Mediterranean Before and After Christianity</b><br />
5. Worthless: The Devaluing of Women, Children, and Human Beings in the Pre-Christian Mediterranean <br />
6. The Useless Ones: Devaluing Civilians in War and Peace<br />
7. The Redemption of Useless People<br /><b>Part 3: Speaking Life into a Culture of Death</b><br />
8. Consolation for the Weary Sufferer<br />
9. Seeking the City of God<br />
10. In Pursuit of Human Flourishing<br />
Conclusion: Who Is My Neighbor? Treasuring Children, Mothers, and All Image Bearers <br />
General Index</p>
Nadya Williams (PhD, Princeton) walked away from academia after fifteen years as a professor of history and classics. She is now a homeschool mom, book review editor at Current, and a contributing editor at Providence magazine. She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (Zondervan Academic, 2023), and numerous articles and essays in Current, Plough, Christianity Today, Front Porch Republic, Fairer Disputations, Law and Liberty, Church Life Journal, and others. She and her husband, Dan, are parents to one adult son and two children still at home. They live and homeschool in Ashland, a small town near Cleveland, Ohio.
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