"Marriage, Health, and the Professions:
If Marriage is Good For You, What Does That Mean for Law,
Medicine, Ministry, Therapy, Therapy, and Business?"
edited by John Wall, Don Browning, William Doherty,
and Stephen Post
First, you should know about a book in our Religion,
Marriage, and Family
Series that has just been published by William B. Eerdmans.
We gave it a
long and descriptive title: "Marriage, Health,
and the Professions: If
Marriage is Good for You, What Does This Mean for Law,
Medicine, Ministry, Therapy, and Business?" Now
there is a title that tells you what the book is about.
We hope it works.
The book is edited by John Wall, Don Browning, William
Doherty, and Stephen Post. It is a collection of
essays by leading scholars from several professions, all
wrestling with the question we ask in the subtitle. We
hope that it is used in pre-professional and professional
education for all of these professions. It can be
ordered from Eerdmans online [see http://www.eerdmans.com/shop/product.asp?p_key=0802843921]
or by phone at 1-800-253-7521.
This book takes off from the groundbreaking research done by
University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite, which was
reported in the widely read and discussed "The Case for
Marriage" (2000). This research presented
evidence indicating that married men and women on average
have better health, enjoy more satisfying sex, and
accumulate more wealth.
"Marriage, Health, and the Professions" asks, if
this is true, what then is an ethically responsible way for
the professions of law, medicine, ministry, therapy, and
business to handle this information? Experts from
theology team up with leading practitioners in these
professions to find answers to this question.
They also ask, how should the Christian faith deal with new
developments that justify marriage on the grounds of
improved health and wealth? Is such thinking a threat
to a religious view of marriage? Or can theology
appreciate the health claims about marriage while still
retaining its traditional covenantal and sacramental views
of this institution?
Should the professions protect and enhance marriage in the
same way that they encourage having clean water, using seat
belts, reducing one's weight, and giving up smoking?
The question of divorce and its effects on children is a
part of the debate, as well as deeper considerations of the
relation of religion and health. Perceptive
theological thinking and good common sense come together to
find answers to these important questions.
The book includes the following essays:
* Linda Waite and David Popenoe on the health
sciences.
* John Witte and Muller Davis on law.
* Stephen Post and Edmund Pellegrino on medicine.
* Christine Hinze, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, and
Richard Hunt on ministry.
* John Wall, Bonnie Miller McLemore, and William
Doherty on therapy.
* Max Stackhouse and Shirley Roels on business.
There are concluding essays on marriage and spirituality by
David Larson and James Swyers, and one on how the relation
of health and marriage is viewed in selected world religions
by Paul Numrich.
Warm regards,
Don Browning, Director
Religion, Culture, and Family Project
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