FAMILY COVENANT, THE--Love and Forgiveness in the Christian Home

This is a reprint of a book first published in 1984 by David C. Cook Publishing Co. Still much in demand, especially in seminaries and Christian colleges as a text for Marriage and Family Counseling courses, it is being reissued by Hope Publishing House. The theme of the book is "When spouses, parents and children agree to live together in love--despite their imperfections--they form a special bond. It's called a 'family covenant.' Based on years of research and practice in family ministry, Dr. Dennis Guernsey explains how this covenant can affect your family and families in your church." Dr. Dennis B. Guernsey had long been a prominent teacher and writer in the field of Christian families. He held a Ph.D. in psychology and was also an ordained minister. He founded the Marriage and Family Counseling Department at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California before going to Seattle Pacific University to develop a new Ph.D. program there in the same field before his untimely death of brain cancer in 1996.
"Dennis Guernsey has offered to Christian families a rich resource for their reflection and enrichment. What he has accomplished is both exciting and practical: a blending of the helpful insights of those disciplines which study the family with the wisdom of Scripture. Neither resource has been compromised." -- David M. Thomas, Ph.D., Director of the Regis College Graduate Program in Family Ministry
"Dennis Guernsey weaves throughout this book the theological basis for behavior. This is done in a respectable, scholarly manner but is illustrated throughout with delightful, vulnerable and real illustrations that bring us to the point." -- Dr. Jay Kesler, president-emeritus, Youth for Christ/USA.
"The ideas flow and challenge readers to review their own conduct in family relationships. There is a casualness in the writing style, but the force of the book is singular, dealing with family attitudes, guided by covenant commitment." -- Mark W. Lee, Ph.D., author and speaker on the family, president-emeritus, Simpson College