The Marital Covenant in John Calvin's Geneva
This article, prepared for a symposium issue on the impact of the Protestant Reformation, analyzes John Calvin's reformation of Western family law in sixteenth-century Geneva. Calvin depicted marriage as a sacred and presumptively enduring union, but also a conditional and breakable covenant wi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Political theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 282-299 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Calvin, Jean 1509-1564
/ Marriage
/ Family
/ Law
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RelBib Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance NCB Personal ethics NCF Sexual ethics SD Church law; Protestant Church |
Further subjects: | B
Law
B John Calvin B Covenant B Family B Weddings |
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