pt. 1. Families and marriage : contemporary perspectives. Marriage -- Family -- Divorce and remarriage -- Advances in reproductive technology -- Work of families : roles of families ; The role of churches in relationship to government on behalf of families -- pt. 2. Approaches to special situations of family ministry. Marital preparation -- Ministry with couples -- Ministry with children and youth -- Ministry with single parents -- Ministry with stepfamilies -- Ministry with families with homosexual sons or daughters -- Ministry with the elderly -- Ministry with families troubled by abuse -- Ministry with families experiencing loss -- Families and popular culture -- Families and violence -- Families and substance abuse -- pt. 3. Resources for congregational ministry with families. Hebrew scriptures and the family -- New Testament scriptures and the family -- Families and worship -- pt. 4. Families in history. Families in ancient Israel -- Families in the Greco-Roman world -- Families in early Christianity -- Families in medieval Christianity and the Reformation -- Families in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- pt. 5. General resources for family ministry. A directory of resources for families.
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