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Witte John

Law and Protestantism : The legal teachings of the Lutheran reformation - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2002 - 337p xviii

Contents
Foreword Martin E. Marty;
Introduction;
1. Canon law and civil law on the eve of the Reformation;
2. Loving thine enemy's law: the evangelical conversion of Catholic canon law;
3. A mighty fortress: Luther and the two-kingdoms framework;
4. Perhaps jurists are good Christians after all: Lutheran theories of law, politics, and society;
5. From gospel to law: the Lutheran reformation laws;
6. The mother of all earthly laws: the reformation of marriage law;
7. The civic seminary: the reformation of education law;
Concluding reflections.

ISBN: 9780521012997

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Religion & Law - Germany - History 2. Reformation - Germany

Dewey Class. No.: 344.430000 / WIT