FAMILIAR IDOLATRY AND THE CHRISTIAN CASE AGAINST MARRIAGE

• Published in: Authorizing Marriage? pp. 17 - 40
• Main Author: Martin, Dale B
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 10.01.2009
• Subjects: Applied sociology; Behavioral sciences; Celibacy; Christian history; Christian philosophy; Christianity; Churches; Divorce; Ecclesiology; Families; Family members; Fathers; Households; Human behavior; Human populations; Human sexual behavior; Human societies; Marriage; Men; Persons; Population studies; Religion; Sexual abstinence; Social institutions; Social sciences; Sociology; Sociology of religion; Spiritual belief systems; Spouses; Wives

Contemporary Christianity in the United States—whether Protestant or Catholic, liberal or conservative—has so closely aligned the basic message of Christianity with the family and “traditional family values” that it is currently in a state of idolatry.¹ Increasingly, whether they are religious or no...