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The quotations from John Calvin, Emil Brunner, and Karl Barth, in our several recent emails about marriage, have all come from one of the Bibliographies of our guided study seminar program for ministers.

In case you would like to read more about Reformed Theology and the Family, please see the full listing immediately below. 

 Option XXII: Reformed Theology and the Family

Family 

Primary Sources

Calvin, John. Calvin's Ecclesiastical Advice, translated by Mary Beaty and Benjamin W. Farley, Foreword by John H. Leith. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 1991. Part IV, 13 (pp. 112-116); Part V (pp. 121-136).

Calvin, John. "Projet D'Ordonnance sur les Mariages." In Corpus Reformatorum 38/I:33-44, 105-114.
        Some if not all of this is available in English in: Witte, John, Jr., and Robert M. Kingdon. "Marriage Ordinance (1546)." In Sex, Marriage, and Family in Calvin's Geneva. Vol. 1, Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage, pp. 51-61. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005.

Baldwin, Claude-Marie. "Marriage in Calvin's Sermons." In Calviniana: Ideas and Influence of John Calvin, edited by Robert V. Schnucker, pp. 121-129. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 10. Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publications, 1988.

Kingdon, Robert M. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva. Harvard Historical Studies, vol. 118. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. ix + 214 pp.

Barth, Karl. [On Marriage]. In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. III, The Doctrine of Creation, Part 1, � 41, section 3, pp. 304-329. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1958.

Barth, Karl. "Man and Woman." In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. III, The Doctrine of Creation, Part 4, � 54, section 1, pp. 116-240. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1961.

Brunner, Emil. "The Community of Life: Marriage and the Family." In The Divine Imperative: A Study in Christian Ethics, translated by Olive Wyon, Book 3, Section 2, Chapters 31-32, pp. 349-384. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1941. Philadelphia, Westminster, [1947]. 728 pp.

Secondary Sources

Browning, Don. From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997. 399 pp.

Piper, Otto A. The Christian Interpretation of Sex. New York: Scribner, 1941. xv + 234 pp.

Bainton, Roland Herbert. What Christianity Says About Love, Sex and Marriage. New York: Association Press, 1957. 124 pp.

 

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