Bibliograph

Hopes for better spouses, Protestant marriage and church renewal in early modern Europe, India, and North America, A. G. Roeber

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Hopes for better spouses, Protestant marriage and church renewal in early modern Europe, India, and North America, A. G. Roeber

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hopes for better spouses

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

826300682

Responsibility statement

A. G. Roeber

Series statement

Emory University studies in law and religion

Sub title

Protestant marriage and church renewal in early modern Europe, India, and North America

Summary

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.--, Provided by Publisher

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

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