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God's joust, God's justice : law and religion in the Western tradition
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God's joust, God's justice : law and religion in the Western tradition

Author: John Witte
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2006.
Series: Emory University studies in law and religion.
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Surveys the stormy yet lush landscape of the Western tradition. First presenting a history of rights in the West, this work then focuses on a diverse yet coherent series of landmarks, from Luther's  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Witte
ISBN: 0802844219 9780802844217
OCLC Number: 70061009
Description: xiv, 498 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: pt. I. Law, religion, and human rights. A short history of Western rights ; Freedom of a Christian: human dignity, liberty, and equality in the theology of Martin Luther ; A Dickensian era of religious rights: Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox contributions ; Soul wars in Russia: the clash of Eastern and Western Christianity over religion and liberty --
pt. I. Law and religion in American history and today. How to govern a city on a hill: Puritan contributions to American constitutional law and liberty ; Religious rights in eighteenth-century America: the original understanding of the First Amendment ; That serpentine wall of separation between church and state ; Adams versus Jefferson: from establishment to freedom of public religion ; The three uses of the law: a Protestant source of the purposes of criminal punishment? --
pt. III. Law, religion, and the family. An apt and cheerful conversation on marriage ; The goods and goals of marriage in the Western tradition ; More than a mere contract: marriage as contract and covenant in law and theology ; The perils of clerical celibacy ; Ishmael's bane: the sin and crime of illegitimacy reconsidered ; The duties of love: the vocation of the child in the household manual tradition --
Conclusion: the challenges of Christian jurisprudence in modern times.
Series Title: Emory University studies in law and religion.
Responsibility: John Witte, Jr.
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