This book investigates the relationship between the law and religious ideology in Luther's Germany, showing how they developed in response to the momentum of Lutheran teachings and influence.

Calls for a return to the principled approach to religious rights, evident both in the American founding era and in the modern human rights movement.

Calvin's teachings spread rapidly throughout Western Europe shaping the law of early modern Protestant lands.

John Witte, Jr carefully documents the Western case for monogamy over polygamy from antiquity until today.

John Witte's poetry sweeps the reader immediately into its crosscurrents, its passionate engagement and its ambivalence. Composed of staggered tercets, the poems in Second Nature track the chaotic rush and swerve of life as we live it.

This second edition updates and expands each chapter and the bibliography. It also includes three new chapters on classical, biblical, and patristic sources.

This second edition updates and expands each chapter and the bibliography. It also includes three new chapters on classical, biblical, and patristic sources.

In the past, Christianity has had both positive and negative influences on democracy.

A diverse and powerful portrait of Orthodox Christian legal and political thought, this volume underscores the various ways Orthodox Christian intellectuals have shaped modern debates over the family, the state, religion, and society.

You would not expect this from his dour reputation, but John Calvin transformed the Western understanding of sex, marriage, and family life.