From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition (Family, Religion, and Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (589 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0664255434 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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offers a study of five conflicting models of marriage--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and Enlightenment--and their social and political impact over the last thousand years. In From Sacrament to Contract, John Witte Jr. In so doing, Witte shows how we arrived at the notion of marriage as contract.The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization.
"Outstanding Legal and Theological History of Marriage" according to A Customer. This outstanding contribution to scholarship in the history of law and religion analyzes the interplay between Christian theological norms and Western legal principles in family life. Departing from Voltaire's quip that the Christian family is either "a little church, a little state, or a little club," John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Ethics at Emory University School of Law examines the theology and law of the family in the Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and Enlightenment traditions. The account begins with the development of the medieval Catholic canon law of marriage i. Naira said monumental. Examining the canon of marriage in its Lutheran and Calvinistic expressions, this outstanding account legally, theologically, and philosophically explains the marriage beyond the contract in the eyes of God and the people.This books has its second edition --- equally remarkable!
. John Witte Jr. is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
"In his From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Law, and the Western Tradition, Emory University's John Witte makes a landmark contribution to Western intellectual history by showing how five competing models of marriage emerged and affected both church and civil law. in Journal of Religion, 79:4 October 1999. in Theology Today, April 1998"It is rare for a just-published book to be immediately considered a potential classic in Christian theology and ethics John Witte, Jr.'s From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition is far and away the finest available history