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  "path": "/2026/03/the-witte-backlist.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T04:30:00.001Z",
  "site": "https://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com",
  "tags": [
    "Church, State, and Marriage: Three Reformation Models",
    "The Tradition of Traditional Marriag",
    "Religious Liberty (Foundations)",
    "preface",
    "Protestant Law",
    "Christianity and Law in the Enlightenment",
    "Josef Bohatec: The First Historian of the Calvinist Reformation of Rights",
    "introduction",
    "Johannes Althusius and the Universal Rule of Natural Laws and Rights"
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  "textContent": "**John Witte, Jr.,   Emory University School of Law,** an eminent historian of law and religion, has posted a number of his papers, most (but not all) of which are brief:  Church, State, and Marriage: Three Reformation Models; The Tradition of Traditional Marriage; Religious Liberty (Foundations); the preface to _To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600_ , edited by Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte, Jr. (2007); Protestant Law; Christianity and Law in the Enlightenment; Josef Bohatec: The First Historian of the Calvinist Reformation of Rights; the introduction to _Christianity and Democracy in Global Context_ , edited by John Witte, Jr. (1993); and Johannes Althusius and the Universal Rule of Natural Laws and Rights.\n\n--Dan Ernst",
  "title": "The Witte Backlist",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-17T04:30:00.114Z"
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