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Appendix A — Sources Consulted (Selected)

Scripture

Section titled “Scripture”

King James Version, throughout.

Deuterocanonical / Second-Temple Sources

Section titled “Deuterocanonical / Second-Temple Sources”

The paper cites two deuterocanonical books as Second-Temple background rather than as canonical Scripture-leg witnesses, consistent with Article 6 of the Thirty-Nine Articles and Westminster Confession 1.3, both of which distinguish the Apocrypha from the canonical books while permitting their use “for example of life and instruction of manners” (Article 6). Editions cited:

  • The Wisdom of Ben Sira (Sirach 3:1-16, 3:12-16 quoted in §2.5 as Second-Temple background to Mark 7 korban). The quoted block follows the KJV Apocrypha (per the 2026-07-24 source verification); the Revised Standard Version — Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Press, 2006) and the Douay-Rheims (DRA) are consulted for comparison where noted.
  • Tobit (Tobit 4-11 summarized in §4.5 for the arrangement pattern; 6:11-13; 7:11-14; 8:6 wedding prayer; 10-11 return blessing). Same editions.

Pre-Nicene Sources

Section titled “Pre-Nicene Sources”
  • Didache 4:9-11, quoted from J. B. Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers (1891)
  • Epistle of Barnabas 19:5, quoted from Lightfoot (1891)
  • Polycarp, To the Philippians 4:2, quoted from Lightfoot (1891)
  • Ignatius, To Polycarp 5:1-2, quoted from Lightfoot (1891); the marriage-with-bishop sentence (5:2) quoted from ANF vol. 1 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885)
  • Shepherd of Hermas, Visions 1-2, quoted from the ANF vol. 2 translation (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885); Greek text and modern translation in Bart D. Ehrman, The Apostolic Fathers vol. 2, Loeb Classical Library 25 (Harvard, 2003); older Loeb edition Kirsopp Lake, 1912-13; commentary in Carolyn Osiek, Shepherd of Hermas, Hermeneia (Fortress, 1999).
  • First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians 21:6-8, same editions.
  • Justin Martyr, First Apology 15, quoted from ANF vol. 1 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885)
  • Athenagoras, Legatio pro Christianis 33, quoted from ANF vol. 2 (Pratten, 1885)
  • Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus (esp. III.11) and Stromata III.12.79-90. English in ANF vol. 2 (Wilson, 1885). Critical Greek text and French translation in Sources chrétiennes 70, 108, 158 (Mondésert, Marrou, Matray, Van den Hoek). English of Stromata Book III with commentary in John Ferguson, Clement of Alexandria: Stromateis Books One to Three, Fathers of the Church 85 (CUA Press, 1991).
  • Tertullian, On the Veiling of Virgins 1 and 11 (quoted from ANF vol. 4, Thelwall trans.); Ad Uxorem I.5-8 (summarized, not quoted)
  • Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis. English rendering after W. H. Shewring, The Passion of SS. Perpetua and Felicity, MM. (Sheed & Ward, 1931); critical Latin/Greek text in Thomas J. Heffernan, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (Oxford, 2012); earlier critical edition C. J. M. J. van Beek, Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis (Nijmegen, 1936).
  • Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica 6.2 (Origen’s youth). Kirsopp Lake, LCL 265 (Harvard, 1932); English also in NPNF² vol. 1 (Schaff, 1890).
  • Cyprian, De Habitu Virginum 3 and 22, quoted from ANF vol. 5 (Wallis, 1886); Epistle 4 (modern critical numbering; = ANF Epistle 61, “To Pomponius, Concerning Some Virgins”) on the virgines subintroductae
  • Methodius, Symposium (Banquet of the Ten Virgins)

Note on patristic editions. Where the paper quotes pre-Nicene sources in English, the rendering follows the Ante-Nicene Fathers translation (Roberts and Donaldson, eds., 1885-1887) unless a more recent scholarly translation is named at the quotation point (as with the Shewring rendering of the Passio in §3.7.1). Chapter and section divisions follow the standard critical editions.

Hebrew Bible Commentary (Rechabites, Jeremiah 35)

Section titled “Hebrew Bible Commentary (Rechabites, Jeremiah 35)”

Cited in §4.1b’s exegetical challenges for the counter-reading of the Rechabite oracle as a Jonadab-vow contrast-device rather than as a generalizable pattern for perpetual filial obedience:

  • Holladay, William L. Jeremiah 2: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 26-52. Hermeneia. Fortress, 1989. pp. 246-52.
  • Lundbom, Jack R. Jeremiah 21-36: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible 21B. Doubleday, 2004. pp. 571-90.
  • McKane, William. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah, Volume II: Commentary on Jeremiah XXVI-LII. International Critical Commentary. T&T Clark, 1996. pp. 878-92.
  • Fretheim, Terence E. Jeremiah. Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary. Smyth & Helwys, 2002. pp. 494-99.

Modern Sources — View 1 (Household Continuity and Covering)

Section titled “Modern Sources — View 1 (Household Continuity and Covering)”

Modern Sources — Views 2a and 2b (Launched at Adulthood) and Household-Formed / Kingdom-Directed Communities

Section titled “Modern Sources — Views 2a and 2b (Launched at Adulthood) and Household-Formed / Kingdom-Directed Communities”
  • Mainstream evangelical family teaching, as reflected across denominational curricula.
  • Catholic and Orthodox teaching on adult vocational discernment and religious life.
  • Campbell, Ross, with Gary Chapman. Parenting Your Adult Child: How You Can Help Them Achieve Their Full Potential. Northfield, 1999. The mainstream-evangelical adult-child-specific pastoral treatment; the “fellow pilgrims” transition statement (p. 32) quoted at §4.2a.
  • Graham, Ruth Bell. Prodigals and Those Who Love Them. Focus on the Family Publishing, 1991. First-person poems and diary entries from the prodigal years of two of her sons, with anthologized prodigal accounts; the “possible and the impossible” division of the parent’s office (p. 101) quoted at §4.2b and §5.4.
  • Keller, Timothy. Center Church. Zondervan, 2012. The Prodigal God, 2008. Counterfeit Gods, 2009.
  • Taylor, Dean. A Change of Allegiance. Radical Reformation Books, 2009. Marriage, Divorce & Remarriage.
  • Yoder, John Howard. The Politics of Jesus. Eerdmans, 1972.
  • Menno Simons, collected writings on the household (1552 and following).
  • Reflections on the practice of Amish, Old Order Mennonite, Beachy Amish, Hutterite, Orthodox Jewish, East Asian Christian, and Global South multi-generational households — cited at §5.5’s Reality-Leg Notes and §B.3.5.

Modern Sources — The Arrangement Question (Parental Mediation of the Marriage Covenant)

Section titled “Modern Sources — The Arrangement Question (Parental Mediation of the Marriage Covenant)”
  • Wilson, Doug. Her Hand in Marriage: Biblical Courtship in the Modern World. Canon Press, 1997.
  • Harris, Joshua. I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Multnomah, 1997. Formally retracted by the author in October 2018 (statement at joshharris.com), disowning the book’s central thesis; cited here as a historical influence on the courtship revival, not as a currently-advocated position.
  • Cover, Dwight. Marrying, Giving in Marriage, and the Will of God. Equip08 NW Conference lecture (2008); expanded lecture notes and full-text edition, 2010s. Develops the threefold Seek → Betroth → Take pattern, the supra-cultural argument, the bride-price grammar, and the redemptive-history flow used in §5.3.
  • Cover, Dwight. Reflections on Birth Control and the Will of God. Undated process paper. Applies the Precept → Principle → Person of Truth hermeneutic to the fertility question; models the leaky-bucket cumulative-argument method and the assumptive-language audit used in §6.3.
  • Ignatius of Antioch, To Polycarp 5:1-2 (c. 107 AD). The pre- Nicene ecclesial-marriage warrant.
  • Orthodox Jewish shidduch halakhic literature on matchmaking and family responsibility in Jewish marriage formation.
  • Historic Roman Catholic canon law on marriage formation: Council of Trent, Session 24 (1563); 1983 Code of Canon Law, canons 1058-1071.

Modern Sources — Consecrated Singleness and Christ-as-Bridegroom (§4.3)

Section titled “Modern Sources — Consecrated Singleness and Christ-as-Bridegroom (§4.3)”
  • Elliot, Elisabeth. Passion and Purity. Fleming H. Revell, 1984.
  • Elliot, Elisabeth. Let Me Be a Woman. Tyndale House, 1976.
  • Elliot, Elisabeth. The Mark of a Man. Fleming H. Revell, 1981. Lecture material also circulated as Masculinity and Femininity Under God (various conference deliveries, late 1970s and 1980s).
  • Elliot, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor. Harper, 1957.
  • Elliot, Elisabeth. Shadow of the Almighty. Harper, 1958.
  • Carmichael, Amy. Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship. SPCK, 1932.
  • Aylward, Gladys, with Christine Hunter. The Small Woman. Evans Brothers, 1957.
  • Roseveare, Helen. Give Me This Mountain. IVP, 1966.
  • Taylor, J. Hudson. A Retrospect. CIM, 1894.
  • Judson, Adoniram. Letters and journals (multiple collections).

Historical and Sociological Sources (Appendix B)

Section titled “Historical and Sociological Sources (Appendix B)”
  • Hajnal, John. “European Marriage Patterns in Perspective.” In D. V. Glass and D. E. C. Eversley, eds., Population in History, Arnold, 1965. The founding statement of the Northwest European Marriage Pattern used in §B.2.1.
  • Kussmaul, Ann. Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, 1981. Chapter 1 for the ~60 percent service figure cited in §B.2.1.
  • Laslett, Peter, and Richard Wall, eds. Household and Family in Past Time. Cambridge University Press, 1972. Cambridge Group household-structure documentation.
  • Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England. Public Affairs Press, 1944; revised edition, Harper & Row, 1966. Cited in §B.2.1 for Puritan household legal regulation of service placements.
  • Whitmore, William H., ed. The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, Reprinted from the Edition of 1672, with the Supplements through 1686. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1889. Primary-source reprint for the 1668 Massachusetts Bay orders cited in §B.2.1.
  • Kraybill, Donald B. The Riddle of Amish Culture. Revised edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  • Kraybill, Donald B., Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt. The Amish. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Retention-rate figures cited in §B.3.5.
  • Pennings, Ray, et al. Cardus Education Survey. Cardus, 2011, 2014, and 2018. The 2018 U.S. wave’s academic and workplace findings cited in §B.3.5 — years of education, advanced-degree attainment, unemployment, household income — are drawn from From the Classroom to the Workplace (2018). The 2018 wave’s civic, volunteering, and charitable-giving findings cited in §B.3.5 are drawn from Involved and Engaged (2018). Both reports are publicly available at cardus.ca.

Methodological Sources

Section titled “Methodological Sources”
  • Taylor, Dean. A Change of Allegiance. Radical Reformation Books, 2009. Originator of the Apostolic Quadrilateral (Scripture, Christocentrism, Antiquity, Reality), the historical ancestor of SCAR.
  • Horton, Michael, ed. Here We Stand: A Call from Confessing Evangelicals. Baker, 1996 (p. 107, on iron-sharpening-iron in theological formation — cited in §6.3 via Cover).
  • Wagner, Steve. Common Ground Without Compromise (Stand to Reason, 2008). The “leaky bucket” cumulative-argument metaphor (via Cover) used in §6.3.2.
  • Tackett, Del. The Truth Project (Focus on the Family, 2006). The “assumptive language” audit method (via Cover) used in §6.3.3.
  • Westminster Assembly. Westminster Confession of Faith, 1:6 (1646). The “expressly set down / by good and necessary consequence deduced” grounding used in Chapter 3 Overview and §6.3.1.

Adjacent Material Consulted, Not Integrated

Section titled “Adjacent Material Consulted, Not Integrated”