Root, Andrew, 1974-

The children of divorce : the loss of family as the loss of being / Andrew Root. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2010. - xx, 171 p. ; 23 cm. - Youth, family and culture series . - Youth, family, and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A history of the family, a history of the self -- Marriage and divorce in late modernity : being and action in Giddens's social theory -- Divorce as an issue of being : ontological security and the loss of self -- Divorce and theological anthropology -- Divorce and the image of God : a conversation between theology and object relations psychology -- What is to be done : the church as a community for the broken.

9780801039140 (pbk.) 0801039142

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Divorce--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Divorce.
Loss (Psychology) in children--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Children of divorced parents--Psychology.

BT 707 / .R66 2010