Hopes for better spouses : Protestant marriage and church renewal in early modern Europe, India, and North America / A.G. Roeber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roeber, A. G. (Anthony Gregg), 1949-

Series:

Emory University studies in law and religion (Unnumbered)

Emory University studies in law and religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage--History of doctrines.

Marriage.

Marriage--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Church renewal--Europe.

Church renewal.

Church renewal--India.

Church renewal--North America.

North America.

India.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013.

Summary:

"Modern Protestant debates about spousal relations and the meaning of marriage began in a forgotten international dispute some 300 years ago. The Lutheran-Pietist ideal of marriage as friendship and mutual pursuit of holiness battled with the idea that submission defined spousal roles. Exploiting material culture artifacts, broadsides, hymns, sermons, private correspondence, and legal cases on three continents -- Europe, Asia, and North America -- A. G. Roeber reconstructs the roots and the dimensions of a continued debate that still preoccupies international Protestantism and its Catholic and Orthodox critics and observers in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Mystics, marriage, and early Lutheran piety

Arguing with Aquinas? Melanchthon, mystics, and marriage

Pietism, marriage, and princely sovereignty, 1670-1740

Polygamy and pietism : the India mission shapes the debate

Moravians, the church, and marriage

Marriage in North America : social discipline and cultural diversity

After pietism, after the church : romance, companions, contracts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802868619

0802868614

OCLC:

826300682

Publisher Number:

99954115262