The Reformation of Marriage Law in Martin Luther's Germany: Its Significance Then and Now
"[T]he estate of marriage has fallen into awful disrepute," Martin Luther declared in 1522.There are many pagan books which treat of nothing but the depravity of womankind and the unhappiness of the estate of marriage. … Every day one encounters parents who forget their former misery becau...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1986
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1986, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 293-351 |
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| Summary: | "[T]he estate of marriage has fallen into awful disrepute," Martin Luther declared in 1522.There are many pagan books which treat of nothing but the depravity of womankind and the unhappiness of the estate of marriage. … Every day one encounters parents who forget their former misery because, like the mouse, they have now had their fill. They deter their children from marriage and entice them into priesthood and nunnery, citing the trials and troubles of married life. Thus do they bring their own children home to the devil, as we daily observe; they provide them with ease for the body and hell for the soul.Furthermore,the shameful confusion wrought by the accursed papal law has occasioned so much distress, and the lax authority of both the spirituai and the temporal swords has given rise to so many dreadful abuses and false situations that I would much prefer neither to look into the matter nor to hear of it. But timidity is no help in an emergency. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051003 |