Christianity and Family Law

‘The authors and editors seek to provide both legal and historical frameworks for the development of family law, stressing the relationship between Christian teachings and various topics. Most are experts on the personages discussed, frequently noting that their contributions are taken from larger works. Almost every chapter reveals new insights, and sometimes the figures themselves are novel (at least to this reader), even though their thoughts may creep into the modern discourse on the family. The editors seek to balance the various divisions in contemporary Christianity and largely succeed. They also include a variety of disciplines.’ Margaret F. Brinig, Journal of Church and State

John Witte, Jr is Robert W. Woodruff University Professor, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, Atlanta. He has published numerous articles and thirty books, including Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (Cambridge, 2002), The Reformation of Rights (Cambridge, 2007), Christianity and Law (Cambridge, 2008), The Sins of the Fathers (Cambridge, 2009), Christianity and Human Rights (Cambridge, 2010), and The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy (Cambridge, 2015). Gary S. Hauk is University Historian and former Vice-President and Deputy to the President of Emory University, Atlanta. He is the author of A Legacy of Heart and Mind: Emory Since 1836 (1999) and editor of Where Courageous Inquiry Leads (2006), and has published numerous essays.