Covenant Marriage In Comparative Perspective

by Witte, John, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780802829931
• ISBN10: 0802829937
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-15
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

The doctrine of covenant has (re)emerged in a number of contemporary Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Islamic circles as a common trope to map and measure the spiritual dimensions of the marital union. The doctrine of covenant has also reemerged separately in a number of American states as a convenient means of strengthening the legal rules of marital formation and dissolution. This volume brings together jurists and theologians from each of these religious traditions in an effort to integrate and elaborate this covenant theology and law of marriage, as well as its essential contractual dimensions.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	x
Contributors	xii
Introduction	1	(25)
John Witte, Jr.
Joel A. Nichols
Jewish Marriage: Nature, Covenant, and Contract	26	(27)
David Novak
The Covenant-Contract Dialectic in Jewish Marriage and Divorce Law	53	(17)
Michael J. Broyde
Marriage As Covenant in the Catholic Tradition	70	(22)
Michael G. Lawler
Covenant Marriage: Reflections from an Eastern Orthodox Perspective	92	(32)
Stanley Samuel Harakas
Marriage As Covenant in Early Protestant Thought: Its Development and Implications	124	(29)
James Turner Johnson
Covenantal Marriage: Protestant Views and Contemporary Life	153	(29)
Max L. Stackhouse
The Nature of the Islamic Marriage: Sacramental, Covenantal, or Contractual?	182	(35)
Azizah Y. al-Hibri
Marriage, Love, and Sexuality in Islam: An Overview of Genres and Themes	217	(22)
Richard C. Martin
The Modern American Covenant Marriage Movement: Its Origins and Its Future	239	(26)
Katherine Shaw Spaht
What Does Covenant Mean for Relationships?	265	(29)
Margaret F. Brinig
Steven L. Nock
The American ``Covenant Marriage'' in the Conflict of Laws	294	(23)
Peter Hay
Bibliography	317	(16)
Index	333