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    Not by Nature but by Grace: Forming Families through Adoption
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    Author(s):
    Gilbert C. Meilaender
    Subject(s):
    Adoption (Theology), Adoption--Religious aspects--Christianity, Families--Religious aspects--Christianity
    Abstract:

    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 iss…

    Date Published:
    2016-08-26
    Date Created:
    2016-08-26
    Record Visibility:
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    Title
    Not by Nature but by Grace: Forming Families through Adoption
    Subject
    Biography, Edward Malloy, Theology, Campus, President, Notre Dame, Students, Faculty, Religious
    Publisher
    University of Notre Dame Press
    Date Created
    2016-08-26
    Resource Type
    Book Chapter
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