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This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme
Court's declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor
(2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the
Court's developing understanding of the legal and social status of
marriage and the family. Leading scholars in the fields of
political science, law, and religion examine the roots of the
Court's affirmation of same-sex rights in a number of areas related
to marriage and the family including the right to marry, equality
and happiness in marriage, the right to privacy, freedom of
association, property rights, parental power, and reproductive
rights. Taken together, these essays evaluate the extent to which
the Court's recent marriage rulings both break with and derive from
the competing principles of American Constitutionalism.
The five-hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation
reawakened a long-standing and spirited conversation between
philosophic science and religious faith, a conversation which
continues to have consequences on how we understand both science
and faith. This book brings scholars together to reflect on the
topic of the Protestant Reformation, as well as the Roman Catholic
Counter Reformation, the nature of science, and the unity of the
Church. Five chapters in this collection represent five distinct
theological formulations within Christianity; the other seven
chapters are from a variety of historic, philosophic, and
theological starting points on the topic. These twelve accounts
range from theologies informed by the Classical Philosophy of Plato
and Aristotle; medieval Jewish and Roman Catholic writers; Moses
Maimonides and Thomas More; writers of the Protestant Reformation
(Martin Luther, John Calvin, Richard Hooker, and William
Shakespeare); the founders of modern science (Francis Bacon and T.
H. Huxley), and the modern day theologies of Abraham Kuyper,
Flannery O'Connor, H. R. Niebuhr, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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