Hopes for better spouses : Protestant marriage and church renewal in early modern Europe, India, and North America / / A. G. Roeber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823080803321
• Autore: Roeber A. G (Anthony Gregg), <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Grand Rapids, Michigan ; ; Cambridge, England : , : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-4674-3760-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 pages)
• Collana: Emory University Studies in Law and Religion
• Disciplina: 261.8/358109
• Soggetti: Marriage - History of doctrines; Marriage - Religious aspects - Christianity; Church renewal - Europe; Church renewal - India; Church renewal - North America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Mystics, marriage, and early Lutheran piety -- Arguing with Aquinas' Melanchthon, mystics, and marriage -- Pietism, marriage, and princely sovereignty, 1670-1740 -- Polygamy and pietism: the India mission shapes the debate -- Moravians, the church, and marriage -- Marriage in North America: social discipline and cultural diversity -- After pietism, after the church: romance, companions, contracts.