Hopes for Better Spouses: Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion) - Softcover

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Roeber, A. G.

 
9780802868619: Hopes for Better Spouses: Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802868614 ISBN 13: 9780802868619
Publisher: Eerdmans, 2013

Synopsis

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.

Exploiting material culture artifacts, broadsides, hymns, sermons, private correspondence, and legal cases on three continents -- Europe, Asia, and North America -- A. G. Roeber reconstructs the roots and the dimensions of a continued debate that still preoccupies international Protestantism and its Catholic and Orthodox critics and observers in the twenty-first century.

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About the Author

A. G. Roeber is professor of early modern history and religious studies and codirector of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute at Penn State University.

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Publisher
Eerdmans
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802868614
ISBN 13 
9780802868619
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
317