Barry Danylak - Redeeming Singleness: How the Storyline of Scripture Affirms the Single Life

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Finally! Ive been hoping and praying for a book like Redeeming Singleness for years. With insight and clarity, Danylak has presented profound biblical and theological truth that can revolutionize the churchs understanding and affirmation of singleness. This book is a gift to Gods people, and the impact could be nothing less than incredible. Read it and rejoice!

Steve Brown, radio broadcaster, Key Life Network;
Emeritus Professor of Preaching, Reformed Theological Seminary

Immensely helpful! Amidst extremes of celibacy versus marriage in Christian traditions on the one hand and todays proliferation of sexual noncommitment on the other, Danylak gives us a thorough-going biblical theology of singleness. He unfolds themes of marriage and singleness from both Old Testament and New Testament with essential, delightful applications for all of us.

J. Scott Horrell, Professor of Theological Studies,
Dallas Theological Seminary

Barry Danylaks book on singleness is now the most thorough and helpful book on the subject. He treats directly the main difficulty in grasping the new covenant viewthe strong Old Testament emphasis on procreation and its importance for establishing and carrying forward the old-covenant people. The change in the nature of the blessing of God for the human race that comes with the new covenant is the key new perspective for understanding Christian singleness, a perspective too often missed in discussions of singleness and voluntary celibacy in the Christian life. Danylaks careful exegesis sustains his overarching view well.

Stephen B. Clark, Director of Research (retired), National Secretariat of the Cursillo Movement; author, Building Christian Communities

Barry Danylak not only presents a deeply penetrating study of the New Testament teaching on singleness but also shows how this teaching fits the entire storyline of the Bible. Far from being a book just for single people, Redeeming Singleness demonstrates how marriage and the single life give a complementary witness to the gospel in the modern world. This is a hugely important and timely book for all Christians.

Daniel Keating, Associate Professor of Theology, Sacred Heart
Major Seminary

Barry Danylaks work has been a great help to me in understanding the distinctive role of singleness in Gods new-covenant people. His writing provides a clear framework of biblical theology, which I found deeply valuable for drawing together the intuitions I had about the meaning of singleness. There is much that the church as a whole, and not just single people, can learn from this.

Lydia Jaeger, Academic Dean, Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Marne

I like the way Danylak methodically and progressively turns over pieces of the biblical jigsaw and assembles them to reveal a thoughtful perspective on marriage and procreation. From the New Testament he firmly grasps the nettle of exegetically difficult passages, and with reference to the cultural influences brings a redemptive perspective to singleness for the contemporary world.

John D. Wilson, Missiologist and mentor (Southeast Asia),
World Team

Redeeming
Singleness

How the Storyline of Scripture
Affirms the Single Life

Barry Danylak

Foreword by John Piper

Redeeming Singleness: How the Storyline of Scripture Affirms the Single Life

Copyright 2010 by Barry Nicholas Danylak

Published by Crossway

1300 Crescent Street
Wheaton, Illinois 60187

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

Cover design: Amy Bristow

Cover photo: Getty Images

First printing 2010

Printed in the United States of America

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Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-0588-1
PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-0589-8
Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-0590-4
ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-2286-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Danylak, Barry.

Redeeming singleness : how the storyline of Scripture affirms the single life / Barry Danylak ; foreword by John Piper.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4335-0588-1 (tpb)

1. CelibacyBiblical teaching. 2. Single peopleReligious life
Biblical teaching. I. Title.

BS680.S5D36 2010

220.8'306732dc22 2010006579

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To
my parents,
Walter and Marjorie Danylak,
who begat me in Christ