Hopes for Better Spouses : Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America.

"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. Exploiti...

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Main Author: Roeber, A. G. (Anthony Gregg), 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013.
Series:Emory University studies in law and religion.
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Table of 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.