From Sacrament to Contract
Title | From Sacrament to Contract PDF eBook |
Author | John Witte |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780664255435 |
Analyzes the interplay between Christian theological norms and Western legal principles concerning marriage, examining the theology and law of marriage in the Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and Enlightenment traditions.
From Sacrament to Contract, Second Edition
Title | From Sacrament to Contract, Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | John Witte Jr. |
Publisher | Presbyterian Publishing Corp |
Total Pages | 409 |
Release | 2012-01-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1611641926 |
This newly revised and enlarged edition of John Witte's authoritative historical study explores the interplay of law, theology, and marriage in the Western tradition. Witte uncovers the core beliefs that formed the theological genetic code of Western marriage and family law. He explores the systematic models of marriage developed by Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans, and Enlightenment thinkers, and the transformative influence of each model on Western marriage law. In addition, he traces the millennium-long reduction of marriage from a complex spiritual, social, contractual, and natural institution into a simple private contract with freedom of entrance, exercise, and exit for husband and wife alike. This second edition updates and expands each chapter and the bibliography. It also includes three new chapters on classical, biblical, and patristic sources.
From Sacrament to Contract
Title | From Sacrament to Contract PDF eBook |
Author | John Witte |
Publisher | Presbyterian Publishing Corp |
Total Pages | 411 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0664234321 |
This newly revised and enlarged edition of John Witte's authoritative historical study explores the interplay of law, theology, and marriage in the Western tradition. Witte uncovers the core beliefs that formed the theological genetic code of Western marriage and family law. He explores the systematic models of marriage developed by Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans, and Enlightenment thinkers, and the transformative influence of each model on Western marriage law. In addition, he traces the millennium-long reduction of marriage from a complex spiritual, social, contractual, and natural institution into a simple private contract with freedom of entrance, exercise, and exit for husband and wife alike. This second edition updates and expands each chapter and the bibliography. It also includes three new chapters on classical, biblical, and patristic sources.
How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments
Title | How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments PDF eBook |
Author | Philip L. Reynolds |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 1083 |
Release | 2016-06-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107146151 |
An indispensable guide to how marriage acquired the status of a sacrament. This book analyzes in detail how medieval theologians explained the place of matrimony in the church and her law, and how the bitter debates of the sixteenth century elevated the doctrine to a dogma of the Catholic faith.
Hindu Women and Marriage Law
Title | Hindu Women and Marriage Law PDF eBook |
Author | Monmayee Basu |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Hindu women |
ISBN |
"This book will be of interest to general readers, social workers, and students of gender studies and modern social history."--BOOK JACKET.
Marriage and the Catholic Church
Title | Marriage and the Catholic Church PDF eBook |
Author | Michael G. Lawler |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780814651162 |
In this collection of theological essays, Michael Lawler confronts difficult questions in the Catholic theology of marriage. Lawler addresses questions about marriage and sacrament, faith and sacrament, divorce and remarriage, cohabitation, an Catholic models of marriage honestly, historically, accurately, and pastorally. He identifies and explores debated issues, embraces a position on them, and sustains his position with reasoned Catholic insight and pastoral sensitivity. With an excellent command of the sources, he offers a fresh look at the Catholic theology of marriage for a new millennium.
Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective
Title | Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | John Witte (Jr.) |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2005-10-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780802829931 |
Covenant marriages requiring premarital counseling and tighter strictures on divorce have recently emerged in some American states. At the same time, the doctrine of covenant has reemerged in religious circles as a common way to map the spiritual dimensions of marriage. Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective brings together eminent scholars from Jewish, Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, and Islamic religious traditions as well as experts on American covenant marriage. The introduction carries out an unprecedented comparison of contract and covenant in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim understandings of marriage. The rest of the book elucidates various facets of marriage from the perspectives of both jurisprudence and religion, producing an enlightening integrated picture of the legal and spiritual dimensions of marriage.