Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties

Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
	The Nature of the Marital Family
	Churches, States, and Families
	The Multidimensional Marital Family Sphere
1 The First Integrative Visions of Christian Marriage and Family
Life
	John Chrysostom and the Emerging Eastern Orthodox Tradition
	Augustine and the Emerging Western Tradition
	Summary and Conclusions
2 Marriage as an Office of Nature and a Sacrament of the
Church
	Aquinas on the Three Goods of Marriage
	Marriage as “An Office of Nature”
		Background.
		Primary and Secondary Precepts.
		Enduring and Exclusive Unions.
		Unnatural Sexual Unions.
	“A Sacrament of the Church”
	Neo-Thomist Views of the Family: the Example of Francisco Vitoria
	Summary and Conclusions
3 The Marital Family as Social Estate and Community
Covenant
	Martin Luther on the Goods of Marriage and Family Life
		Marital Love.
		Protection from Sin.
		Children.
		No Sacramental Marriage.
	The Marital Covenant in John Calvin’s Geneva
		Forming the Marital Covenant.
		Living the Marital Covenant.
		Violating the Marital Covenant.
		Ending the Marital Covenant.
	Summary and Conclusions
4 The Domestic
Market
	Max Weber and the Protestant Spirit of Capitalism
	Illustrations from the Protestant Household Manuals
		Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575).
		Robert Cleaver (b. ca. 1561).
		William Perkins (1558–1602).
		Richard Baxter (1615–1691).
	Summary and Conclusions
5 The Nature of Family in Seventeenth-Century Christian
Thought
	Hugo Grotius and the Self-Evident Natural Law of Sex, Marriage, and Family
	John Selden and the Neo-Hebraic Natural Law Theory of the Family
	Summary and Conclusions
6 The Surprising Liberal Defense of the Traditional Family in the Enlightenment
	Natural Rights in the Family
		John Locke (1632–1704).
		Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797).
	Common Sense and Moral Sentiments: Scottish Enlightenment Teachings on the Family
		Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746).
		David Hume (1711–1776).
		Adam Smith (1723–1790).
	Utilitarian Arguments
		William Paley (1743–1805).
		Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832).
	Summary and Conclusions
7 The Multidimensional Family
Sphere
	The Nature of the Marital Family
	It Takes a Society to Raise a Family
	The Economics of the Family
		Rational-Choice Economics.
		Institutional Economics.
		Behavioral Economics.
	The Communicative Dimension of the Family
	The Contractual Dimensions of the Marital Family
		Husbands and Wives.
		Parents and Children.
	The Marital Family as a Spiritual Institution
		Marriage as Sacrament.
		The Covenant of Marriage.
	Concluding Reflections and Projections
8 Why Suffer the Children?
	Evaluating American Christians’ Criticisms of Children’s Rights
		No Children’s Rights.
		No International Children’s Rights.
		Endangering Parental and Religious Rights.
		Profamily Rights.
	The Roots of Children’s Rights in the Western (Christian) Tradition
		Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Priority of the Natural Family.
		Children’s Rights in Enlightenment Philosophy.
		Children’s Rights in the Common Law.
		Nonmarital and Prenatal Children.
	Summary and Conclusions
9 Why No Polygamy After Same-Sex Marriage
	Biblical and Legal Arguments
	Arguments from Nature
	Harm Arguments
	Symbolic and Educational Arguments
	Summary and Conclusions
10 By the Power Vested in Whom?
	(Religious) Privatization of Family Law?
	Covenant Marriage and Get Statutes
	Shared Jurisdiction in Charity and Education
	Ministerial Solemnization of Marriage
	Religious Arbitration of Family Disputes
	Summary and Conclusions
11 The Dangers of Private Ordering
	The Privatization, Expansion, and Abolition of the Marital Family
	Martha Fineman and the Abolition of the Marital Family
		Exploding the Myths of Family Law.
	Points of Convergence with the Tradition
	Points of Concern
	Summary and Conclusions
Concluding Reflections
Bibliography
Index