THE MEANING OF SINGLENESS:
Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for
the Contemporary Church
By Danielle Treweek
Inter Varsity Press. 328 pages. £28
ISBN 978 1 514 004 852
The idolisation of marriage and the biological family is a reality the evangelical church is slowly waking up to, and Dani Treweek’s work feels like a seminal point in that awakening – or, I should say, re-awakening.
This impressive work demonstrates that the majority of orthodox church history has viewed singleness as a status with inherent worth and meaning, and it’s largely through our contemporary world that the church has come to define singleness as the absence of marriage, or simply a burden to be endured and thrown off at the first opportunity.
