This book combines the teachings of Christian theology, Enlightenment liberalism, and modern social science to defend the marital family as an essential institution for adults and children, regardless of sexual…

This book explores both historical and contemporary Christian sources and dimensions of global law, and includes critical perspectives, comparative perspectives, and dialectics with other faiths and liberal philosophical perspectives.

John Witte, Jr documents the historical arguments for monogamy over polygamy in the West from antiquity until today. Weighing traditional arguments alongside modern claims that anti-polygamy laws violate personal and…

This book traces the religious sources and dimensions of human rights and the complex interaction of human rights and religious freedom norms historically and today. It also answers various modern…

Analyzing Christian influences on Western family law over the past two millennia, this volume explores marriage and divorce, women’s and children’s rights, marital property and inheritance, and human sexuality. In…

In this volume, a score of leading jurists assess critically and comparatively the religious rights, laws and practices of the international community, and of selected states in the Atlantic continents.

This book investigates the impact of education on the formation of character, moral education, and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies. Scholars from four continents and many…

The family is humanity's oldest and most basic social institution, but today it is fragile, fractured, and fraught in many liberal lands. This volume gathers scholars from sociology, psychology, history…