"The core of this book consists of the Cadbury lectures... at the University of Birmingham, England during the autumn of 1998. The title of these lectures was 'Globalization and the Family"-Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents: The world situation of families: marriage reformation as a cultural work- From West to East: modernization and family in the U.S. and South Korea - Christianity and the Western family-Marriage and the male problematic in Aquinas and Luther-Nature and creation: evolutionary psychology and the family- A practical theology of families-Feminism, family, and global trends-Cultural, social, and educational strategies- World Family strategies.