From Sacrament to Contract

by Witte, John

• ISBN13: 9780664255435
• ISBN10: 0664255434
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

InFrom Sacrament to Contract, John Witte Jr. offers a study of five conflicting models of marriage--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and Enlightenment--and their social and political impact over the last thousand years. In so doing, Witte shows how we arrived at the notion of marriage as contract.The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	ix	(2)
Don S. Browning
Ian S. Evison
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(15)
Models of Marriage	2	(10)
From Sacrament to Contract	12	(4)
1. Marriage as Sacrament in the Roman Catholic Tradition	16	(26)
Biblical and Patristic Teachings	16	(6)
The Formation of the Sacramental Model of Marriage	22	(8)
The Canon Law of Marriage	30	(6)
The Tridentine Synthesis	36	(6)
2. Marriage as Social Estate in the Lutheran Reformation	42	(32)
The Case of Johann Apel	44	(3)
The New Evangelical Theology of Marriage	47	(6)
The Transformation of Marriage Law in Lutheran Germany	53	(17)
Continuity and Discontinuity	70	(4)
3. Marriage as Covenant in the Calvinist Tradition	74	(56)
The Case of the French Noblewoman	75	(3)
The Early Reformation of Marriage Law	78	(14)
Calvin's Later Reformation of Marriage Theology	92	(21)
Geneva's New Law of Marriage in Action	113	(13)
Preservation and Colonization	126	(4)
4. Marriage as Commonwealth in the Anglican Tradition	130	(64)
The Cases of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon	134	(6)
The Tudor Reformation of Marriage Theology	140	(14)
Legal Reformation and Legal Reversal	154	(11)
Marriage as Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England	165	(14)
John Milton and John Locke	179	(15)
5. Marriage as Contract in the Enlightenment Tradition	194	(22)
The Case of Stephen versus Mill	198	(4)
The Transformation of Anglo-American Marriage Law	202	(14)
Reflections	216	(4)
Notes	220	(54)
Bibliography	274	(29)
Index of Biblical References	303	(2)
Index of Subjects and Authors	305