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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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,
2013.
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| 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.