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Title: Mutuality Matters: Family, Faith, and Just Love by Herbert Anderson, Edward Foley, Bonnie Miller-McLemore ISBN: 0-7425-3155-4 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A Valuable, Diverse Collection
Comment: The editors reveal that Mutuality Matters: Family, Faith, and Just Love began as a festschrift in honor of Herbert Anderson. Although I often avoid festschrifts, this project evolved into a worthwhile volume. The book examines the topics of mutuality in marriage and family life and ways mutuality can be fostered through congregational life and ministry. Four of the sixteen chapters are revisions or adaptations of earlier works.

Mutuality Matters brings together a wide range of perspectives on the subjects. Experts in pastoral care, biblical studies, ethics, liturgy, religious education, theology, philosophy, and cultural anthropology all contribute chapters. The breadth of these contributors insures that any reader will find some new perspectives and ideas from reading the book. While each contributor writes from the depth of her or his own field of expertise, each piece is still widely accessible.

The chapter authors are Paul Wadell, Pauline Kleingeld, Don Browning, Carolyn Osiek, Herbert Anderson, Christine Neuger, Joel Anderson, K. Samuel Lee, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Pamela Couture, Dianne Bergant, Anthony Gittens, Homer Ashby, Gilbert Ostdiek, Thomas Groome, and James Poling.

Any religious leader or scholar interested in marriages and families founded on mutuality will find Mutuality Matters a highly relevant resource. Whether you are interested in theory or practice, this book has it all. However, only heterosexual relationships are explicitly considered, although the editors explain, "Many claims...about just love pertain to all families, regardless of sexual orientation." Several chapter authors do consider ethnic and cultural differences.

My only complaint about this otherwise outstanding volume is the poor copyediting. Typographical errors begin in the table of contents and continue throughout the book. Another glaring example of poor editing is that the introduction contains two very similar paragraph-length disclaimers about the omission of homosexual relationships. It seems like the book was rushed into production too quickly.

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