The Battle for the Biblical Family

Definitions of gender, marriage, and family are evolving almost daily. Surveys of younger generations show much greater acceptance of unbiblical norms. Part of the problem is that relatively few people know and understand what the Bible says, from cover to cover, about these foundational aspects of society. Read what the Bible has to say about the family from this biblical counseling expert.

Publisher: Crown & Covenant Publications
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781943017164

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Dr. George Scipione (1946–2020) was involved with biblical counseling for half a century. He received a doctorate in biblical counseling from Whitefield Theological Seminary. From 1982 to 2006, he was the director of the Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship (IBCD) in San Diego, CA. Dr. Scipione also had forty-four years of pastoral experience in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He pastored churches in New Jersey, California, and South Carolina. For ten years, he directed the Biblical Counseling Institute of the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA. He and his wife, Eileen. were married in 1972 and have five children and two grandchildren.

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‘The Battle for the Biblical Family is book meets a need by providing a systematic and practical theology of marriage, the family, and parenting. Dr. Scipione’s pastoral heart for Biblical counseling shines throughout this book. This book is at least 3 things: First, it is uncompromisingly Biblical, informing our faith to be fixed on the Bridegroom of the Church. Second, it is confidently expectant, informing our hope for the Spirit's grace to transform our families so that they transform society. Third, it is captivatingly challenging, informing our love to be lived out in the service and perspective of God's glory. The appendix alone is worth the price of the book, since it does much of your research for you, identifying every Biblical text about the family, as well as providing an annotated bibliography. There are also wonderful considerations of the family as it related to other topics, such as Biblical History, Gender Roles, the Local Church, Counseling, etc. Since "The Battle for the Biblical Family" is realistic and explicit in considering the fight required to serve and protect the family, this book has 5 sections asking 5 important questions in consideration of this battle. Scipione then goes to work, searching the Scriptures in order to provide answers to these questions. He does not stop at Biblical exposition and theological articulation, but he also provides realistic application. Having read and compared both editions, the second edition is a slight improvement on the first. My only critique is that they should have used footnotes instead of endnotes.’ Shawn M Anderson