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Marriage, Health, and the Professions: The Implications of the Health Benefits of Marriage for the Practice of Law, Medicine, Ministry, Therapy, and B (Paperback)

Wall, John (Editor)
and Post, Stephen (Editor)
and Doherty, William J. (Editor)

Recent studies show that married men and women on average have better health, enjoy more satisfying sex, and accumulate more wealth than single adults do. If this data is true, then what is an ethically responsible way for the professions of law, medicine, therapy, business, and ministry to handle this information?

Experts from theology here team up with leading practitioners of the professions covered to bring theological balance to the new secular health view of marriage. Each chapter pursues one of a number of relevant and engaging problems relating to married life. How should the Christian faith deal with arguments that justify marriage on the grounds of improved health and wealth? Can theology appreciate the health claims about marriage but still retain its traditional covenantal and sacramental views? The issue 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.

Contributors:
Don Browning
Muller Davis
William Doherty
Christine Firer Hinze
Richard Hunt
David Larson
Paul Numrich
Edmund Pellegrino
David Popenoe
Stephen Post
Shirley J. Roels
Max L. Stackhouse
James P. Swyers
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
Linda Waite
John Wall
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
John Witte

Details

• SKU:9780802843920
• SKU10:0802843921
• Publisher:Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Date Published:Jun 2002
• Pages:344

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