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Protestantism

Medieval Catholic Background, Reformation Response, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, Legacy




The sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation was a watershed in the history of the Western theology and law of marriage—a moment and movement that gathered several streams of classical and Catholic legal ideas and institutions, remixed them and revised them in accordance with the new Protestant norms and forms of the day, and then redirected them in the governance and service of the Christian West.




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Marriage and Family EncyclopediaMarriage: Cultural Aspects