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John Witte offers sage reflections on how to thrive in law school, short commentaries on hard questions of faith, freedom, and family, pithy sermons on difficult biblical texts on law, and touching tributes to a few of his fallen heroes.

This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law, historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and around the globe. Sixty new chapters by leading scholars provide authoritative and accessible accounts of foundational Christian teachings on law and legal thought over the past two millennia, the current interaction and contestation of law and Christianity on all continents, how Christianity sh...

This book combines the teachings of Christian theology, Enlightenment liberalism, and modern social science to defend the marital family as an essential institution for adults and children, regardless of sexual orientation.

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This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. It encourages churches, states, and other social institutions to collaborate in promoting the integration of sex, marriage, and family life. It defends the rights of women and children against Christian critics, and resists modern liberal efforts to abolish, privatize, or fracture the marital family.

This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. It encourages churches, states, and other social institutions to collaborate in promoting the integration of sex, marriage, and family life. It defends the rights of women and children against Christian critics, and resists modern liberal efforts to abolish, privatize, or fracture the marital family.

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.

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.

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 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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The sacred texts and legal traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have contributed much to the cultivation and violation of religious human rights around the world - particularly of women, children, and dissidents. Desmond Tutu, Martin Marty, and twenty leading scholars offer an authoritative assessment of these contributions, and challenge peoples of all faiths to adopt golden rules of religious liberty'. This volume and its companion...