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Sex, marriage, and family in John Calvin's Geneva. Volume 1, Courtship, engagement, and marriage
- Author
- Witte, John, Jr., 1959-
- Title
- Sex, marriage, and family in John Calvin's Geneva. Volume 1, Courtship, engagement, and marriage / John Witte, Jr. & Robert M. Kingdon.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Cambridge : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2005.
- Description
- xxxii, 512 p. ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- Kingdon, Robert M. (Robert McCune), 1927-2010
- Portion of title
- Courtship, engagement, and marriage
- Uniform series
- Religion, marriage, and family series.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
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- Making and breaking intimate bonds: An overview of the reformation of engagement, annulment and marriage in Geneva
- The new alliance of church and state: the reformation work of the Genevan Council and Consistory
- Looking for love in all the right places: Calvin on courtship and matchmaking
- Love thyself as they neighbor: Individual consent to engagement and marriage
- Honor thy father (and thy mother): parental consent to engagement and marriage
- Capacity to contract marriage: the impediments of infancy and mental inability
- The two shall be come one flesh: the impediment of polygamy or precontract
- Fitness for marriage: the impediments of lack of viginity, contagion, sexual incapacity, and disparity in age
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a relative: the incest impediments
- Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers
- For richer or poorer: the economics of engagement and marriage
- The perilous interval: premarital delay, sex and desertion
- I now take thee: of banns and weddings
- Concluding refelections: the emerging convenantal model of engagement and marriage.
- Subject headings
- Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.
- Kinsey subjects
- Religious laws. Religious sex attitudes--Switzerland--16th century. Religiosity and sex behavior. Marriage and family--History--16th century.
- Subject headings
- Geneva (Switzerland)--Church history--16th century.
- ISBN
- 9780802848031 0802848036