Church, state, and family : reconciling traditional teachings and modern liberties / John Witte, Jr. Emory University, Atlanta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witte, John, Jr., 1959- author.

Series:

Law and Christianity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.

Families.

Marriage--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.

Marriage.

Marriage--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Families--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

xxii, 434 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While applauding modern sexual freedoms, John Witte, Jr also defends the traditional Western teaching that the marital family is an essential cradle of conscience, chrysalis of care, and cornerstone of ordered liberty. He thus urges churches, states, and other social institutions to protect and promote the marital family. He encourages reticent churches to embrace the rights of women and children, as Christians have long taught, and encourages modern states to promote responsible sexual freedom and family relations, as liberals have long said. He counsels modern churches and states to share in family law governance, and to resist recent efforts to privatize, abolish, or radically expand the marital family sphere. Witte also invites fellow citizens to end their bitter battles over same-sex marriage and tend to the vast family field that urgently needs concerted attention and action.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

The first integrative visions of Christian marriage and family life : Chrysostom and Augustine

Marriage as an office of nature and a sacrament of the Church : Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Vitoria

The marital family as social estate and community covenant : Martin Luther and John Calvin

The domestic market : the family as matrix of modern economics

The nature of family in seventeenth-century Christian thought : Hugo Grotius and John Selden

The surprising liberal defense of the traditional family in the Enlightenment

The multidimensional family sphere : reconstructing traditional family teachings for modern liberal societies

Why suffer the children? : overcoming the modern Church's opposition to children's rights

Why no polygamy after same-sex marriage

By the power vested in whom? : what place for faith-based family laws in liberal democracies?

The dangers of private ordering.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107184756

1107184754

OCLC:

1050457293

Publisher Number:

99981322647