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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| IxTheo 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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| Summary: | 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 with distinct and discernible goods and goals that couples and communities alike had to support. This covenantal framework gave Calvin new rationales for old rules concerning marital and non-marital sex and cohabitation, courtship and weddings, procreation, nurture, and education of children, and the punishment of adultery, polygamy, and unnatural sex within and beyond the marital bed. But Calvin also set out new teachings on the proper communal formation and maintenance of the marital covenant, and introduced into Genevan law the rights of husbands and wives alike to divorce and remarry in cases of hard fault. |
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| Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 3-4 May-June 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1445945 |