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Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity Audiobook, by Nadya Williams Play Audiobook Sample

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

Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity Audiobook, by Nadya Williams Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: November 5, 2024
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Read By: Nan McNamara Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.00 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798855571165

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

54:57 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

20:11 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

43:50 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

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.

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About Nan McNamara

Nan McNamara has performed on stage, television, film, and behind the microphone in voice-overs for over twenty years. Her passion is to tell good stories—no matter what the medium. Originally from St. Paul, Nan received a BA cum laude in theater.