Loneliness

The author broadly defines singleness as including never-married, people in casual relationships as well as committed unmarried relationships, same-sex attracted and unattached people, widowed, divorced, and single parents; these are also called “states of singleness.” Singleness is usually identified with loneliness, having no sex, and having no romantic relationships. Focusing on any one of those identifications should be troubling for Christians, though, especially since Christian tradition has often praised and privileged single life. Loneliness is not the one central characteristic that should define any state of singleness (nor should no sex, or no romantic relationships). In this book, instead, each chapter focuses on a different state of singleness, and a corresponding holy person or Christian guide who inhabited that state of life and who wrote about Christian discipleship.

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