A comprehensive analysis of Christian influences on Western family law from the first century to the present day.

What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity,

4. The Upbringing of Children

The Western tradition has always cherished the family as an essential foundation of a just and orderly society, and thus accorded it special legal and religious

This book explores the Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience for both scholarly and educated genera