Covenant Marriage In Comparative Perspective

The doctrine of covenant has (re)emerged in a number of contemporary Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Islamic circles as a common trope to map and measure the spiritual dimensions of the marital union. The doctrine of covenant has also reemerged separately in a number of American states as a convenient means of strengthening the legal rules of marital formation and dissolution. This volume brings together jurists and theologians from each of these religious traditions in an effort to integrate and elaborate this covenant theology and law of marriage, as well as its essential contractual dimensions.