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Not by Nature But by Grace: Forming Families Through Adoption

Not by Nature But by Grace: Forming Families Through Adoption

Meilaender, Gilbert C.

Hardcover

Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World

PhilosophyChristian LivingPregnancy & Adoption

ISBN10: 0268100683
ISBN13: 9780268100681
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Sep 15 2016
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

Working from within the contours of Christian faith, this book examines the relation between two ways of forming families--through nature (by procreation) and through history (by adoption). Christians honor the biological tie between parents and children, for it is the work of God in creation. Yet Christians cannot forget that it is adoption, and not simply natural descent, that is at the center of the New Testament's depiction of God's grace. Gilbert Meilaender takes up a range of issues raised by the practice of adoption, always seeking to do justice to both nature and history in the formation of families, while keeping at the center of our vision the truth that it is not by nature but by grace that we can become adopted children of the one whom Jesus called his Father.

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