Building a Godly Home, vol. 3
Overview
For years, William Gouge’s Domestical Duties has stood as the foremost Puritan treatment of Christian family life. Yet due to its size and antiquated expression, it has become almost unknown among current generations of believers. To help revive the usefulness of this classic book, Scott Brown and Joel R. Beeke divided Gouge’s work into three manageable volumes, updated the language to modern standards, and gave it the title Building a Godly Home.
In the third volume, A Holy Vision for Raising Children, Gouge offers wise and practical advice to both children and parents on how to relate to each other with love and honor. Drawing from a wealth of biblical principles and examples, he fleshes out how a household of affectionate authority provides for children and prepares them to live as God’s servants in the world. Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters will find much here to challenge and guide them.
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Be sure to check out the first two volumes of Building a Godly Home (2 vols.).
- Updates William Gouge’s classic Puritan work, Domestical Duties
- Provides a Reformed theology for marriage and family
- Applies Scripture passages on marriage and family
Few issues spell countercultural Christianity as does a biblical view of the home and its various relationships and responsibilities. Those like the seventeenth-century Presbyterian William Gouge, who provided a lengthy exposition of domestic life as outlined in Scripture, got themselves into trouble with those who viewed biblical teaching burdensome (Gouge was vilified by wealthy city women, for example). But domestic reform is essential if we are to reflect godliness in the home, and Gouge’s once enormously popular Of Domestical Duties is without equal in describing what it looks like. A masterful guide, Gouge is pastoral, clear-headed, thoughtful, and eminently Bible-focused as he writes about the tasks, ideals, and problems of Christian family life. Once as popular as Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Matthew Henry’s Commentary, Gouge’s Of Domestical Duties deserves a central place in the modern Christian home.
—Derek W.H. Thomas, senior minister, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC
- Title: Building a Godly Home, Volume 3: A Holy Vision for Raising Children
- Author: William Gouge
- Series: Building a Godly Home
- Volume: 3
- Publisher: Reformation Heritage
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian ethics › Early works to 1800; Families › Religious life--Early works to 1800
- ISBNs: 9781601782267, 1601782268
- Resource ID: LLS:BLDNGGDLYHM03
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:15:53Z