Tuesday, March 17, 2026

The Witte Backlist

John Witte, Jr.,  Emory University School of Law, an eminent historian of law and religion, has posted a number of his papers, most (but not all) of which are brief:  Church, State, and Marriage: Three Reformation Models; The Tradition of Traditional Marriage; Religious Liberty (Foundations); the preface to To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, edited by Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte, Jr. (2007); Protestant Law; Christianity and Law in the Enlightenment; Josef Bohatec: The First Historian of the Calvinist Reformation of Rights; the introduction to Christianity and Democracy in Global Context, edited by John Witte, Jr. (1993); and Johannes Althusius and the Universal Rule of Natural Laws and Rights.

--Dan Ernst