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From a distinguished assembly of twelve internationally acclaimed scholars comes this rich, interdisciplinary study that explores the Protestant Reformation and its resultant effects on the church as well as the world.The Reformation extended from the church to revolutionize art, music, literature, architecture, and aesthetics and transformed economics, trade, and banking, these transformations shifted power away from the church to the state a...

This volume examines the relationship between religion and human rights in seven major religious traditions, as well as key legal concepts, contemporary issues, and relationships among religion, state, and society in the areas of human rights and religious freedom.

This new edition of a classic textbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the history, theology, and law of American religious liberty. The authors offer a balanced and accessible analysis of First Amendment cases and controversies, and compare them to both the original teachings of the American founders and current international norms of religious liberty.

A passionate and energetic collection from a nationaly recognized poet

This volume documents the Western historical arguments for monogamy over polygamy, from antiquity to the present.

This volume documents the Western historical arguments for monogamy over polygamy, from antiquity to the present.

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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 eac...

John Calvin developed arresting new teachings on rights and liberties, church and state, and religion and politics that shaped the law of Protestant lands. Calvin's original teachings were periodically challenged by major crises - the French Wars of Religion, Dutch Revolt, the English Civil War, American colonization, and American Revolution. In each such crisis moment, a major Calvinist figure emerged - Theodore Beza, Johannes Althusius, John...

This volume is both a celebration and an evaluation of the work on sex, marriage, and family life by Don S. Browning, the dean of modern family studies in theological ethics and practical theology. Scholars probe a number of Browning 's contributions, particularly his call for an ethic of equal regard within the household and wider society. This book is a true interdisciplinary effort, with insights from psychology, history, law, theology, bio...

This volume examines the relationship between religion and human rights in seven major religious traditions, as well as key legal concepts, contemporary issues, and relationships among religion, state, and society in the areas of human rights and religious freedom.

This is a major project to be undertaken as part of a broad intiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts and the University of Notre Dame on the role of Christianity in modern society. John Witte is one of the editors of the forthcoming Sex, Marriage, and the Family: A Reader in World Religions.

Divided into two volumes, The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature offers a landmark collection of writings from twenty leading Christian thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and analyses of their work by leading contemporary religious scholars.The first volume examines modern Christian thinkers' views on the most pressing political, legal, and ethical questions of our time. The essays present a vit...

This book investigates the relationship between the law and religious ideology in Luther's Germany.

John Calvin transformed the Western theology and law of sex, marriage, and family life. Building on a generation of Protestant reforms, Calvin constructed a comprehensive new theology and law that made marital formation and dissolution, childrenbs nurture and welfare, family cohesion and support, and sexual sin and crime essential concerns for both church and state. Working with other jurists and theologians, Calvin drew the Consistory and Cou...

Johannes Calvin entwickelte ein neues Verständnis von Rechten und Freiheiten, von Kirche und Staat, das das Rechtssystem der frühen protestantischen Staaten formte. Seine Lehren, die sich schnell in Westeuropa ausbreiteten, wurden immer wieder durch große Krisen herausgefordert: die französischen Religionskriege, die niederländische Revolte, die englische Revolution, die amerikanische Kolonisation und Revolution. In solchen Krisen waren es Anh...

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Frontmatter -- Vorbemerkung -- Inhalt -- Erster Theil. Leben der Schwedischen Gräfinn von G*** -- Zweiter Theil. Leben der Schwedischen Gräfinn von G** -- Gedanken von einem guten deutschen Briefe, an den Herrn F. H. v. W. -- Briefe, nebst einer praktischen Abhandlung von demguten Geschmacke in Briefen -- Vorrede -- Praktische Abhandlung von dem guten Geschmacke in Briefen -- Briefe -- Kommentar -- Einzelkommentare -- 1. Leben der Schwedischen...

Frontmatter -- Vorbemerkung -- Inhalt -- Das Band -- Sylvia -- Die Betschwester -- Das Loos in der Lotterie -- Die zärtlichen Schwestern -- Die kranke Frau -- Das Orakel -- Kommentar zu den Lustspielen -- Materialien zur zeitgenössischen Rezeption der Lustspiele -- Einzelkommentare -- 1. Das Band -- 2. Sylvia -- 3. Die Betschwester -- 4. Das Loos in der Lotterie -- 5. Die zärtlichen Schwestern -- 6. Die kranke Frau -- 7. Das Orakel -- Verzeich...

Disquiet is John Witte¿s fourth book of poetry and his second book in the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and numerous anthologies. The recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he lives in Eugene, where he teaches at the University of Oregon.