Breaking the Marriage Idol: Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms, KutterCallaway, IVP, 2018 (ISBN 978‐0‐8308‐4542‐2), viii + 280 pp., pb $18.

Kutter Callaway, assistant professor of theology and culture at Fuller
Theological Seminary, has delivered a sorely needed antidote to the North
American evangelical church’s idealization of marriage, fetishizing of sex,
and dismissal of singleness. He’s joining a chorus of voices, like those of
Wesley Hill and Christina Cleveland, while contributing his skills as a cultural critic and years of pastoral experience. Callaway’s goal is no less
than to fully dismantle the highly un-theological anthropology which undergirds the church’s account of sexuality and marriage. But he doesn’t
leave us without a starting point for reconstructing a vastly more imaginative, meaningful, and biblical portrait of what it might look like for both
couples and singles of Christ’s Body to live out their challenging vocations
together in chaste anticipation of their real wedding day.