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Author : John Witte, Jr,Gary S. Hauk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108415347
A comprehensive analysis of Christian influences on Western family law from the first century to the present day.
Author : John Witte, Jr.,Frank S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521697492
What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters of the law that Christianity has profoundly shaped - justice and mercy, rule and equity, discipline and love - as well as more technical topics of canon law, natural law, and state law. Some of these legal creations were wholly original to Christianity. Others were converted from Jewish and classical traditions. Still others were reformed by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophers. But whether original or reformed, these Christian teachings on law, politics and society have made and can continue to make fundamental contributions to modern law in the West and beyond.
Author : Norman Doe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107186446
This book compares historical and modern natural law ideas across global Christian traditions and explores their use in church law.
Author : John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107184756
Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.
Author : Robin Fretwell Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417600
Examines clashes over religious liberty spanning the life cycle of families - from birth to death.
Author : Michael W. McConnell,Robert Cochran,Angela C. Carmella
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300130065
This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars—including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, Elizabeth Mensch, Gerard Bradley, and Marci Hamilton—describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and human striving. The book reveals not only the diversity among Christian legal thinkers but also the richness of the Christian tradition as a source for intellectual and ethical approaches to legal inquiry. The contributors bring various perspectives to the subject. Some engage the prominent schools of legal thought: liberalism, legal realism, critical legal studies, feminism, critical race theory, and law and economics. Others address substantive areas, including environmental, criminal, contract, torts, and family law, as well as professional responsibility. Together the essays introduce a new school of legal thought that will make a signal contribution to contemporary discussions of law.
Author : John Witte
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664255434
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.
Author : Geoffrey Nathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134706686
The Family in Late Antiquity offers a challenging, well-argued and coherent study of the family in the late Roman world and the influence of the emerging Christian religion on its structure and value. Before the Roman Empire's political disintegration in the west, enormous political, religious and cultural changes took place in the period of late antiquity. This book is the first comprehensive study of the family in the later Roman Empire, from approximately 300 AD to 550 AD. Geoffrey Nathan analyses the classical Roman family as well as early Christian notions of this most basic unit of social organisation. Using these models as a contextual backdrop, he then explores marriage, children, domestic servitude, and other familial institutions in late antiquity. He brings together a diverse collection of sources, transcending traditional studies that have centred on the legal record.
Author : Lynne Marie Kohm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 0976083000
An overview of key foundational principles of family law from a biblical perspective. Useful as a study guide or supplement for law students, or as a primer for practitioners.
Author : John Witte
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664234324
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.
Author : John Witte Jr.
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611641929
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.
Author : Heinrich Wilhelm J. Thiersch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590974882
Author : John Witte, Jr,Frank S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139494113
Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of dignity, equality, liberty and democracy that ground the modern human rights paradigm. Christianity also helped shape the law of public, private, penal, and procedural rights that anchor modern legal systems in the West and beyond. This collection of essays explores these Christian contributions to human rights through the perspectives of jurisprudence, theology, philosophy and history, and Christian contributions to the special rights claims of women, children, nature and the environment. The authors also address the church's own problems and failings with maintaining human rights ideals. With contributions from leading scholars, including a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this book provides an authoritative treatment of how Christianity shaped human rights in the past, and how Christianity and human rights continue to challenge each other in modern times.
Author : James A. Brundage
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226077895
This monumental study of medieval law and sexual conduct explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a comprehensive history of legal doctrines–covering the millennium from A.D. 500 to 1500–concerning a wide variety of sexual behavior, including marital sex, adultery, homosexuality, concubinage, prostitution, masturbation, and incest. His survey makes strikingly clear how the system of sexual control in a world we have half-forgotten has shaped the world in which we live today. The regulation of marriage and divorce as we know it today, together with the outlawing of bigamy and polygamy and the imposition of criminal sanctions on such activities as sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, and bestiality, are all based in large measure upon ideas and beliefs about sexual morality that became law in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. "Brundage's book is consistently learned, enormously useful, and frequently entertaining. It is the best we have on the relationships between theological norms, legal principles, and sexual practice."—Peter Iver Kaufman, Church History
Author : John Witte, Jr.,Rafael Domingo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197606759
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 shaped and was shaped by core public, private, penal, and procedural laws; various old and new forms of Christian canon law, natural law theory, and religious freedom norms; Christian teachings on fundamental principles of law and legal order; and Christian contributions to controversial legal issues. Together, the chapters make clear that Christianity and law have had a perennial and permanent influence on each other over time and across cultures, albeit with varying levels of intensity and effectiveness. This volume defines "Christianity" broadly to include Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions and various denominations and schools of thought within them. It draws on Christian ideas and institutions, norms and practices, texts and titans to tell the story of Christianity's engagement with the world of law over the past two millennia. The volume also defines "law" broadly as the normative order of justice, power, and freedom. The chapters address natural laws of conscience, reason, and the Bible and positive laws enacted by states, churches, and voluntary associations. Several chapters focus on Christian engagement with specific types of law: canon law, family law, education law, constitutional law, criminal law, procedural law, and laws governing labor, tax, contracts, torts, property, and beyond. Other chapters take up cutting edge legal issues of racial justice, environmental care, migration, euthanasia, and (bio)technology as well as fundamental legal principles of liberty, dignity, equality, justice, equity, judgment, and solidarity.
