About
John Witte, Jr., JD (Harvard); Dr. Theol. h.c. (Heidelberg), is Robert W. Woodruff University Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. A leading specialist in legal history, human rights, religious freedom, marriage and family law, and law and religion, he has published over 250 articles, 17 journal symposia, and 32 books. Work Shared in CORE
Articles
- Between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King: James Pennington’s Struggle for ‘Sacred Human Rights’ Against Slavery
- Response to Reviewers of John Witte, Jr., Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties
- The Metaphorical Bridge Between Law and Religion
- Historical Foundations and Enduring Fundamentals of American Religious Freedom
- La libertad religiosa en Estados Unidos: Una perspectiva internacional
- The Costs and Benefits of a Christian Coalition: A Response to Ralph Reed
- Moderate Religious Liberty in the Theology of John Calvin
- Moderate Religionsfreiheit in der Theologie Johannes Calvins
- Introduction — Soul Wars: The Problem and Promise of Proselytism in Russia
- “Between Sacrament and Contract: Marriage as Covenant in John Calvin’s Geneva
- Zwischen Sakrament und Vertrag: Ehe als Bund im Genf Johannes Calvins
- Oracle of Religious Liberty — Review of John T. Noonan, Jr., The Lustre of the Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom (1998)
- “A Most Mild and Equitable Establishment of Religion” John Adams and the Massachusetts Experiment
- In the Steps of Gratian: Writing the History of Canon Law in the 1990s
- Review of R.H. Helmholz, The Spirit of the Classical Canon Law (1996)
- Review of Gϋnther Haas, The Concept of Equity in Calvin’s Ethics (1997)
- Introduction to “Symposium: Pluralism, Proselytism, and Nationalism in Eastern Europe”
- Review of Adrian Thatcher, Marriage after Modernity (1998)
- A Primer on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism
- A Dickensian Era of Religious Rights: An Update on Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective
- God’s Joust, God’s Justice: Confessions of a Christian Historian
- Freedom of a Christian: The Lutheran Reformation as Revolution
- Review of Daniel L. Dreisbach, Religion and Politics in the Early Republic: Jasper Adams and the Church-State Debate (1997)
- Adams v. Jefferson: The Freedom of Public Religion
- The Meanings of Marriage
- Ishmael’s Bane: The Sin and Crime of Illegitimacy Reconsidered
- Between Sanctity and Depravity: Law and Human Nature in Martin Luther’s Two Kingdoms
- That Serpentine Wall of Separation
- From Establishment to Freedom of Public Religion
- Introduction: The Foundations of Law
- Facts and Fictions About the History of Separation of Church and State
- Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother? Child Marriage and Parental Consent in John Calvin’s Geneva
- Introduction: The Foundations and Frontiers of Religious Liberty
- Prophets, Priests, and Kings of Liberty: John Milton and the Reformation of Rights and Liberties in England
- ’Fairer Still the Woodlands’: Mapping the Free Exercise Forest, Review of Kent Greenawalt, Religion and the Constitution 1: Free Exercise and Fairness (2006)
- Rechte, Widerstand und Revolution in westlicher Tradition: frühe protestantische Grundlangen
- Rights, Resistance, and Revolution in the Western Tradition: Early Protestant Foundations
- Keeping the Commandments
- In Luther’s View: ‘Two Kingdoms’ Doctrine Draws Line of Separation
- The Legal Challenges of Religious Polygamy
- Modern Classics Review of Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300
- Review of Stacey Johnson, A Time To Embrace: Same Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics (2007)
- Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Human Rights
- “Lift High the Cross?” Contrasting the New European and American Cases on Religious Symbols on Government Property
- Christianity’s Mixed Contributions to Children’s Rights: Traditional Teachings, Modern Doubts
- Beyond the Separation of Church and State in America
- Church, State, and Marriage: Four Early Modern Protestant Models
- The Study of Law and Religion in the United States: An Interim Report
- The Covenant of Marriage: Its Biblical Roots, Historical Influence, and Modern Uses
Book chapters
- Foreword to Orazio Condorelli and Rafael Domingo, eds., Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy: The Legacy of the Great Jurists
- Introduction to Rafael Domingo and John Witte, Jr., eds. Christianity and Global Law
- Preface and Acknowledgements to Rafael Domingo and John Witte, Jr., eds. Christianity and Global Law
- Afterword to Russell Sandberg, ed., Leading Works in Law and Religion
- Introduction to Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls
- Bürgerrecht und Religion III. Nordamerika
- Foreword to John E. Coons and Patrick Brennan, By Nature Equal? The Anatomy of a Western Insight
- One Public Religion, Many Private Religions: John Adams and the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution
- Anglican Marriage in the Making: Becon, Bullinger, and Bucer
- The Biography and Biology of Liberty: Abraham Kuyper and the American Experiment
- Preface
- An Apt and Cheerful Conversation on Marriage
- Soul Wars
- Canon Law in Lutheran Germany: A Surprising Case of Legal Transplantation
- Family
- An Evangelical Commonwealth: Johannes Eisermann on Law and the Common Good
- Protestantism, Law and Legal Thought
- The Last American Establishment: Massachusetts, 1780-1833
- Human Dignity in Early Protestant Perspective
- Law
- Law and Legal Theory
- Male Headship: Reform of the Protestant Tradition
- Politics
- Democracy
- Introduction to John Witte, Jr. and Eliza Ellison, eds., Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective
- Introduction to John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander, eds., Modern Christian Teachings on Law, Politics, and Human Nature
- Introduction to Don S. Browning, M. Christian Green, and John Witte, Jr., eds., Sex, Marriage, and Family in the World Religions
- Foreword to Natan Lerner, Religion, Secular Beliefs, and Human Rights: 25 Years After the 1981 Declaration
- The Perils of Celibacy: Clerical Celibacy and Marriage in Early Protestant Perspective
- Marriage Contracts, Liturgies, and Properties in Reformation Geneva
- Preface to John Witte, Jr., M. Christian Green, and Amy Wheeler, eds., The Equal Regard Family and its Friendly Critics: Don S. Browning and the Practical Theological Ethics of the Family
- The Rights and Limits of Proselytism in the New Religious World Order
- John Calvin on Marriage and Family Life
- The Duties of Love: The Vocation of the Child in the Household Manual Tradition
- A Demonstrative Theory of Natural Law: Johannes Althusius and the Rise of Calvinist Jurisprudenc
- Calvinist Contributions to Freedom in Early Modern Europe
- Calvin the Lawyer
- Church, State, and Family in John Calvin’s Geneva: Domestic Disputes and Sex Crimes in Geneva’s Consistory and Council
- The Universal Role of Natural Law and Written Constitutions in the Thought of Johannes Althusius
- Afterword: The Future of Muslim Family Law in Western Democracies
- American Religious Liberty in International Perspective
- Clandestine Marriage and Parental Consent in John Calvin’s Geneva: The Gradual Synthesis of Theology, Statutes, and Case Law
- Introduction to T. Jeremy Gunn and John Witte, Jr., eds., No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty
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