C.R. Wiley
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C.R. Wiley is a senior contributor toĀ The Imaginative ConservativeĀ and a minister living in the Pacific Northwest. His short stories have appeared inĀ The Mythic CircleĀ andĀ Fear and Trembling, and his nonfiction has appeared inĀ Touchstone Magazine,Ā Relevant Magazine Online, andĀ Modern Reformation, and he is the author ofĀ Man of the House.Ā The Purloined Boy, Book 1 of theĀ Weirdling Cycle, is his first novel.Ā
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AUTHOR: C.R. Wiley
PAGE COUNT: 145
SIZE: 5.5x8.5"
BINDING: Paperback
ISBN-10:Ā 1947644912
ISBN-13:Ā 9781947644915
PUB. DATE: June 18, 2019
Your household is not just a shelter from a war zone; it is the command center from where you launch your attacks. It's this vision of the world, with the Christian family at the heart, that modern parents desperately need to recover.
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In this truly original book, C.R. Wiley shows that, although the family has become dislocated and pushed to the side by modern society, this wasn't always the case. At one time, the world was not seen as a random assortment ofĀ time and matter, but as an ordered wholeāas a Cosmos.
Because people saw themselves asĀ part of an ordered whole, they also believed that they had obligations to the people around them. They were not just autonomous individuals, but members of households with unique duties to past and future generations. Words like "piety" and "religion" did not refer to what you did in your quiet time, but were more like the seemingly obsolete values of "duty" and "honor."
C.R. Wiley illustratesĀ these ancient values through the Roman Aeneas, and shows how this founding myth inspired people to things we need. However, he also shows how this myth failed and it wasĀ succeeded by a greater mythāthe myth of Abraham and His God's war for the cosmos.
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What People Are Saying:Ā
"It's easy to see howĀ the household as a foundational institution is crumbling, and Wiley puts forth a robust macro-level vision for why it's worth saving. He dissects wordsātheir origins, implications, and context within history and Scriptureālike piety, duty,Ā cosmos, and household. Put together, a picture emerges of the family not as a personal lifestyle choice, but as a microcosm with interconnected duties and dependencies intended to reflect how the Churchāthe household of Godāoperates. This book has encouragement for fathers, for family enterprise, and for weary, modern parents in need of restored vision."Ā -WORLD Magazine
"Today the true revolutionaries are not feminists, homosexualĀ activists, or other progressives but those who are seeking toĀ halt any further erosion of the family, and even reverse theĀ processāfamilies who are intentionally working to restore atĀ least some of the traditional functions of the household." -Nancy Pearcey, author ofĀ Total TruthĀ andĀ Love Thy Body
"C.R. Wiley is calling upon us to remember that we have dutiesĀ that go by the name of piety, what those duties are, why theyĀ have gone unregarded in our time, how they are founded inĀ our human and bodily nature, and why they are essential forĀ the Christian to practiceā¦. And he is cheerful about it, moreĀ cheerful by far than our obliviousness deserves."Ā -Anthony Esolen, author ofĀ Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture
"What is neededĀ ...is an account of creaturely life in the world that sees the health of the person linked to the health of the place, the life of man linked to the life of the earth. In his new book The Household and the War for the Cosmos,Ā Connecticut pastor C. R. Wiley takes a major step toward defining what such a relationship ought to be."Ā -Mere Orthodoxy
"This book is the good beans... Wileyās book is one, long sustained argument, and you find yourself on the edge of your seat as you approach the end of it, leaning toward the conclusion. And my best way of summarizing that conclusion is this. He showsāto take the book of Ephesians for my exampleāthat the New Testament āhousehold codeā instructions are not some extraneous thing dragged in, disrupting the flow of the book. No, husbands loving their wives and wives respecting their husbands has a tight connection to the fact of our spiritual warfare, as we wrestle with the principalities and powers." -Douglas Wilson, pastor and author ofĀ Reforming Marriage, Future Men, andĀ Father Hunger
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