Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity

How we talk about human life matters.In western post-Christian society, humans are thought of less like precious...
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Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity by Williams, Nadya

Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity

BD$39.07

Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity

BD$39.07
Author: Nadya Williams
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How we talk about human life matters.

In western post-Christian society, humans are thought of less like precious image bearers and more like commodities. The canary in the coal mine of this ideological shift is often women and children, which manifests itself in the seemingly built-in disdain towards motherhood and children for their lack of production of economically valuable goods.

However, the risk of this utilitarian approach to human life is not just outside the church, but within those spaces as well. Indeed, the commodification of human life within the contemporary body politic is so deeply embedded within the systems, even the church has lost touch with some of the ways it inherently devalues the lives of women and children.

Classics scholar Nadya Williams draws from voices both ancient and modern to illuminate how Christians can value human life amidst an empire that seeks to dehumanize that which is most precious. Bringing insights from the beliefs and practices of the early church in Greco-Roman context about motherhood, raising children, and human life, Williams suggests there is a way to recapture a vision that affirms the imago Dei in each person over and above our economic contribution to society.



Author: Nadya Williams
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781514009123


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2024 pg. 89

About the Author

Nadya Williams (PhD, Princeton) walked away from academia after fifteen years as a professor of History and Classics. She is now a homeschool mom, Book Review Editor at Current, and a Contributing Editor at Providence Magazine. She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (Zondervan Academic, 2023), and numerous articles and essays in Current, Plough, Christianity Today, Front Porch Republic, Fairer Disputations, Law and Liberty, Church Life Journal, and others. She and her husband, Dan, are parents to one adult son and two children still at home. They live and homeschool in Ashland, a small town near Cleveland, Ohio.


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