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The Household and the War for the Cosmos: Recovering a Christian Vision for the Family Paperback – June 18, 2019

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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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  1. What we are left with today is heart religion, because now the heart is the only place Jesus can be publicly acknowledged to live. Ironically, many people think that this is the sum total of Christianity, and the notion that this is actually a downgrading of the faith is inconceivable.
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"It's easy to see how 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 words their origins, implications, and context within history and Scripture like piety, duty, 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 Church the household of God operates. This book has encouragement for fathers, for family enterprise, and for weary, modern parents in need of restored vision." --WORLD Magazine

"Today the true revolutionaries are not feminists, homosexual activists, or other progressives but those who are seeking to halt any further erosion of the family, and even reverse the process--families who are intentionally working to restore at least some of the traditional functions of the household." --Nancy Pearcey, author of Total Truth and Love Thy Body

"What is needed ...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, Connecticut pastor C. R. Wiley takes a major step toward defining what such a relationship ought to be." --Mere Orthodoxy

"C.R. Wiley is calling upon us to remember that we have duties that go by the name of piety, what those duties are, why they have gone unregarded in our time, how they are founded in our human and bodily nature, and why they are essential for the Christian to practice.... And he is cheerful about it, more cheerful by far than our obliviousness deserves." --Anthony Esolen, author of Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture

"This book is the good beans... Wiley's 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 shows to take the book of Ephesians for my example that the New Testament household code 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, author of Reforming Marriage, Future Men, and Father Hunger

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C.R. Wiley is a senior contributor to The Imaginitive Conservative and a pastor living in the Pacific Northwest. His short stories have appeared in The Mythic Circle and Fear and Trembling, and his nonfiction has appeared in Touchstone Magazine, Relevant Magazine Online, and Modern Reformation, and he is the author of Man of the House. The Purloined Boy, Book 1 of the Weirdling Cycle, is his first novel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Canon Press (June 18, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1947644912
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.36 x 8.5 inches
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C. R. Wiley is a minister living in the Pacific Northwest. He has written for Touchstone Magazine, Modern Reformation, Sacred Architecture, The Imaginative Conservative, Front Porch Republic, Scenes Media, and National Review. His short fiction has appeared in The Mythic Circle (published by the Mythopoeic Society) and elsewhere, and he has published young adult fiction. He has been a commercial real estate investor, a building contractor, and a college professor. He is a member of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. Follow him at crwiley.com.

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This book really is a gem, one that will take a bit of mining to see the sparkle. It laboriously steeps meaning into the eternal, cosmological worth of a biblical household. It is a dialogue with ancient philosophers, Greek words, and sociocultural pictures that suffuses meaning into the household codes of Ephesians 6. It has a clear theme, but also takes many enriching asides to helps us see what has shaped our presumptions.In summary, God has set our households in the midst of the world as a testimony to the order and redemption of the universe in Christ. We all have a critical service to yield within our household - our piety. Will we submit and prioritize ordering our households to reflect God’s cosmological intention? We have watered down our allegiance to family and home, but here is a challenge to reorder our lives.With unconventional style, Wiley challenges the grid of individualism which we subconsciously view the household in culture today. He molds a story line that sets the biblical narrative of household in opposition to the world’s destruction of the household. In this story we find the ideal of the household is pivotal in the war for the cosmos.
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A Cook
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This book breaks the rating system. 5 stars are not enough. I am currently preaching my way through Ephesians, and have been studying the book in depth for the past year. Wiley nails the message of the book. A dead ringer.
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Zack Groff
5.0 out of 5 stars A Gripping Read on the Relationship between the Household and God's Created Order (the Cosmos)
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A much quicker read than Wiley's first volume, this little book is something of a theoretical expansion on the theme of the household's relationship to the created order (cosmos) found in "Man of the House." Having recently read both books, I think that it makes sense to read this one first in sequence, though "Man of the House" is more effective as a standalone volume (as Wiley's footnotes in this book may suggest). Again, Wiley proves himself to be an effective writer. He held my attention, even as he meandered through heady philosophical themes and historical developments (which he simplifies to the point of erasing any complexity in pursuit of his aim). He tends to appeal to etymology more for rhetorical force than for substantive argumentation, but the force is well-deployed. If you are looking for an intellectually (and morally) stimulating treatment of the microcosmic nature of the household, this is a worthwhile read. If you are looking for something closer to a practical handbook for the vision put forth in this book, then "Man of the House" is more fitting. A caution for the faint-hearted: take the title very seriously; Wiley discusses the themes of household, war, and cosmos (and their relations) on nearly every page. In this respect, he offers a unified work to his readers. I especially appreciate his expansive definition for piety (more akin to classical pietas or virtue than to modern pietism and sentimentality).
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nick demore
4.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful and reforming
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The authors writing style allows for the mind to both be stretched into new categories and rest in biblical truth all at once.
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Jeremiah Doom
5.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to the biblical household view
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2024
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I really enjoy how the author makes the juxtaposition between what a household in the traditional sense is and what a household in the Bible means.

This book is for anyone who wants to understand more of the importance of the home as the basic foundation of society
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Will Reed
5.0 out of 5 stars Battle Plan and Map
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The author, C.R. Wiley provides a no-nonsense overview of the war to all of us as Christian soldiers. We are informed of the prime targets that must be protected, the enemy’s strategy of attack and the workings of our weapons against the world order that assaults us.

He also shows according to Scripture where our wealth as Christians is real and not only metaphorical. For the reasons above, four stars —The fifth star is for Wiley not wasting time repeating himself. Brief and effective exegesis is all we have time for in our walk with Christ. Time to get to our God-given enterprise. Men, read this one prayerfully and move forward according to plan and map.
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Jeremy Seifert
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, it's not often I read such a short book that impacts my thinking so much.
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2019
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This book has impacted my thinking in ways I'm still trying to measure or understand. While I wouldn't call it 'earthshaking' or 'monumental', it has helped awaken me to possibilities about my purpose as a husband and father and Christ follower that I hadn't fully considered before. I'd say I've also been forced to re-evaluate our culture not in terms of 'where we are right now' but in light of where we've been, and what we've lost getting here.

To me the realizations in this book - about the role of the family in the plan of God and its functions in a culture - are at once subtle and profound. I'm a bit of a historical orphan, speaking both in the larger concept of history, but also in terms of the church. I haven't really known how I got here, and who my forebears in the faith were. This book didn't exactly change that, but it helped me see things I hadn't been looking for before. This book is about the concept of piety, in a historical/classical sense. I've heard piety talked about, I've heard of the difference between piety and pietism, that sort of thing before, but C.R. Wiley helped walk out piety in a Christian context in a way that really introduced it to me as if for the first time. I will really need to re-read this, but the first thing I did when I got done with this is order Man of the House and I'll be reading that soon.

I will need to revisit this review and probably expand it - I realize it's not incredibly helpful as-is but I'm still sorting through all this. For now let me just say that if you're a Christian who wants a bigger view of your purpose in the culture, and what a household really is (not just a place to rest in close proximity to others who may share your DNA and/or last name), give this book a read. As it is, I wish I'd read this book when I was maybe 18, but God's Providence is good, and the book has made its impact on me here and now, and one thing I can do about that is leave a review thanking the author for this book and encouraging you all to read it.
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This book really is a gem, one that will take a bit of mining to see the sparkle. It laboriously steeps meaning into the eternal, cosmological worth of a biblical household. It is a dialogue with ancient philosophers, Greek words, and sociocultural pictures that suffuses meaning into the household codes of Ephesians 6. It has a clear theme, but also takes many enriching asides to helps us see what has shaped our presumptions.

In summary, God has set our households in the midst of the world as a testimony to the order and redemption of the universe in Christ. We all have a critical service to yield within our household - our piety. Will we submit and prioritize ordering our households to reflect God’s cosmological intention? We have watered down our allegiance to family and home, but here is a challenge to reorder our lives.

With unconventional style, Wiley challenges the grid of individualism which we subconsciously view the household in culture today. He molds a story line that sets the biblical narrative of household in opposition to the world’s destruction of the household. In this story we find the ideal of the household is pivotal in the war for the cosmos.
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This book really is a gem, one that will take a bit of mining to see the sparkle. It laboriously steeps meaning into the eternal, cosmological worth of a biblical household. It is a dialogue with ancient philosophers, Greek words, and sociocultural pictures that suffuses meaning into the household codes of Ephesians 6. It has a clear theme, but also takes many enriching asides to helps us see what has shaped our presumptions.

In summary, God has set our households in the midst of the world as a testimony to the order and redemption of the universe in Christ. We all have a critical service to yield within our household - our piety. Will we submit and prioritize ordering our households to reflect God’s cosmological intention? We have watered down our allegiance to family and home, but here is a challenge to reorder our lives.

With unconventional style, Wiley challenges the grid of individualism which we subconsciously view the household in culture today. He molds a story line that sets the biblical narrative of household in opposition to the world’s destruction of the household. In this story we find the ideal of the household is pivotal in the war for the cosmos.
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I love this book and it has come at such a vital time in our culture. The prose is easy and it is easily digestible. The themes only Christ can help me apply.
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Arianne
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read! Very provocative
Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2023
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A very timely book. Gives much food for thought, as well as an understanding of why things must be as they are biblically. Give an entirely new perspective on Ephesians
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Glenn Coleman
5.0 out of 5 stars Very insightful
Reviewed in Australia on August 21, 2019
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Some profound truths being rediscovered. This book shows the macro view of the intention of God’s purpose in creating the household and how we have lost sight of this reality, in a culture that has turned its back on God
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great nugget of a book!
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Everything about this book is awesome. Perfect for young couples and young families.
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I think all this could have been said in an article 🤷‍♀️. I appreciated some of the history given in this book. My motivation for finishing though was purely because I didn't want to leave it unfinished.
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