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Authors: John Witte, John Witte Jr
ISBN-13: 9780664255435, ISBN-10: 0664255434
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: 1 ED
Series Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Models of Marriage | 2 | |
From Sacrament to Contract | 12 | |
1 | Marriage as Sacrament in the Roman Catholic Tradition | 16 |
Biblical and Patristic Teachings | 16 | |
The Formation of the Sacramental Model of Marriage | 22 | |
The Canon Law of Marriage | 30 | |
The Tridentine Synthesis | 36 | |
2 | Marriage as Social Estate in the Lutheran Reformation | 42 |
The Case of Johann Apel | 44 | |
The New Evangelical Theology of Marriage | 47 | |
The Transformation of Marriage Law in Lutheran Germany | 53 | |
Continuity and Discontinuity | 70 | |
3 | Marriage as Covenant in the Calvinist Tradition | 74 |
The Case of the French Noblewoman | 75 | |
The Early Reformation of Marriage Law | 78 | |
Calvin's Later Reformation of Marriage Theology | 92 | |
Geneva's New Law of Marriage in Action | 113 | |
Preservation and Colonization | 126 | |
4 | Marriage as Commonwealth in the Anglican Tradition | 130 |
The Cases of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon | 134 | |
The Tudor Reformation of Marriage Theology | 140 | |
Legal Reformation and Legal Reversal | 154 | |
Marriage as Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England | 165 | |
John Milton and John Locke | 179 | |
5 | Marriage as Contract in the Enlightenment Tradition | 194 |
The Case of Stephen versus Mill | 198 | |
The Transformation of Anglo-American Marriage Law | 202 | |
Reflections | 216 | |
Notes | 220 | |
Bibliography | 274 | |
Index of Biblical References | 303 | |
Index of Subjects and Authors | 305 |