From This Day Forward--Rethinking the Christian Wedding
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From This Day Forward--Rethinking the Christian Wedding

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From This Day Forward--Rethinking the Christian Wedding

About this book

Weddings have become a billion-dollar industry, with the average cost of a wedding estimated at $30, 000. Taking into account dramatic shifts in attitudes toward marriage in recent years, many pastors are confused and frustrated about their role. This book offers a foundational understanding of marriage for today's North American church. Exploring current sociological analyses of marriage and the history of Christian marriage rites, Kimberly Bracken Long suggests that the church rethink its involvement in weddings and offers a distinctively Christian understanding of marriage. Today's church, Long contends, needs to reinterpret classic biblical metaphors and expand the range of scriptural sources that inform our understanding of marriage. Long also looks closely at each element of the wedding service and what makes a marriage liturgy faithful, inclusive, and sensitive to pastoral concerns. She provides practical suggestions for music and Scripture during wedding services as well as guidance on how to respond faithfully to those who are divorced or divorcing. Packed with constructive pastoral wisdom, From This Day ForwardRethinking the Christian Wedding delivers a practical theology of marriage that will be of help to clergy, seminarians, and others interested in this topic.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Advance Praise
  3. Half Title
  4. Also by Kimberly Bracken Long
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1. The State of the Union
  11. 2. Should the Church Get Out of the Wedding Business?
  12. 3. What’s Love Got to Do with It? A Short History of Marriage
  13. 4. Feasting at the Table of Love
  14. 5. The Christian Wedding
  15. 6. Marriage and the Church’s Mission
  16. Appendix A: Scripture Readings for Weddings
  17. Appendix B: Hymns for Weddings
  18. Notes
  19. Excerpt from Inclusive Marriage Services, edited by Kimberly Bracken Long and David Maxwell