Christians – and not only Christians – have tended to think of kinship as simply 'natural'. Such a thought silences the radical and distinctive call of the Gospel. With this study, David Torrance offers an original, critical and constructive approach to the topic, and one which will allow that call to be heard afresh.

Michael Banner, University of Cambridge, UK

Christian ethics has too often been satisfied with an understanding of the family it has presumed to be universal. David Torrance's conceptually astute account of kinship, reflecting the recent turn to social anthropology in moral and systematic theology, is a fine demonstration of the rich theological rewards such interdisciplinary engagement can bring.

Robert Song, Durham University, UK

In this thorough, careful discussion, David Torrance considers theology and anthropology in relation to Christian kinship. Torrance shows that Christians are not limited only to nuclear families for living faithfully, but that an array of creative Christian communities not bound by procreation can also yield lives of faithful discipleship.

Jana M. Bennett, University of Dayton, USA