John Witte Jr.
John Witte Jr. is a Canadian-American academic. He is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of law and a McDonald Distinguished Professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, and is director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion there.
He is series editor of the Emory University Studies in Law and Religion by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, and general editor of the Law and Christianity Series published by Cambridge University Press.Education
Witte received a BA from Calvin College in 1982, and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1985.Books
As author:
- Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation
- Sex, Marriage and Family in John Calvin’s Geneva I: Courtship, Engagement and Marriage
- God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition
- The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism
- The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered
- Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction
- No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty
- Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction
- From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, 2nd ed.
- The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy
- Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 4th ed.
- Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties
As editor:
- Herman Dooyeweerd, A Christian Theory of Social Institutions
- Christianity and Democracy in Global Context
- Harold J. Berman, Law and Language: Effective Symbols of Community
As co-editor:
- The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion
- Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives
- Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives
- Human Rights in Judaism: Cultural, Religious and Political Perspectives
- Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism
- Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective
- Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Family Life in Interdisciplinary Perspective
- Sex, Marriage, and Family in the World Religions
- The Teachings of Modern Protestantism on Law, Politics and Human Nature
- The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism on Law, Politics and Human Nature
- The Equal Regard Family and Its Friendly Critics
- To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600
- The Teachings of Modern Orthodox Christianity on Law, Politics and Human Nature
- Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls
- Christianity and Law: An Introduction
- Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honour of Charles Donahue
- Christianity and Family Law: An Introduction
- The Protestant Reformation of the Church and the World
- Christianity and Global Law" ''
