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(February 21, 2021)John Witte, Jr.Robert W. Woodruff Professor of LawMcDonald Distinguished Professor of ReligionDirector, Center for the Study of Law and ReligionEmory Law School1301 Clifton RoadAtlanta, Georgia 30322john.witte@emory.edu or amy.wheeler@emory.eduPhone: 404-727-6980/FAX: 404-712-9801Articles and Book Chapters(Noted items posted on http://www.johnwittejr.com/ and SSRN)1. "Hellenic Philosophy of Law: Essential Terms," in The Association for theAdvancement of Christian Scholarship: Academic Paper Series, No. 1 (November,1981): 1-34 SSRN Entry – PDF Download2. "Roman Law and Legal Philosophy," in ibid., No. 2 (January, 1982): 1-39 SSRNEntry – PDF Download3. "Equity in Greek and Roman Legal Theory," in ibid., No. 3 (January, 1982): 1-17SSRN Entry – PDF Download4. "The Medieval Development of Roman Law and Canon Law on Natural LawFoundations," in ibid., No. 4 (January, 1982): 1-42, 77-93 (with Darrell J. Stremler)SSRN Entry – PDF Download5. "Towards an Understanding of Bracton on Kingship," in ibid., No. 5 (May, 1982): 1-19SSRN Entry – PDF Download6. "Schools of Legal Philosophy in America: A Critical Analysis," in ibid., No. 6 (May,1982): 1-887. "The First Amendment and Public Schools," The Reformed Journal 33 (1983): 14-188. “Introduction,” to Herman Dooyeweerd, A Christian Theory of Social Institutions, JohnWitte, Jr., ed., Magnus Verbrugge, trans. (Toronto: Paideia Press, 1986), 7-30 SSRNEntry – PDF Download9. "The Reformation of Marriage Law in Martin Luther's Germany: Its Significance Thenand Now," Journal of Law and Religion 4 (1987): 293-351 SSRN Entry – PDF Download1
10. "Church and State," in Mircea Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion (New York,1987), vol. 3, 489-505 (with Harold J. Berman)11. "Blest Be the Ties That Bind: Covenant and Community in Puritan Thought," EmoryLaw Journal 36 (1987): 579-601 SSRN Entry – PDF Download12. “Introduction,” to John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander, eds., The WeightierMatters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion, (Atlanta, GA: American Academy ofReligion Studies in Religion Series, 1988), xiii-xxii SSRN Entry – PDF Download13. "The Transformation of Marriage Law in the Protestant Reformation," in ibid., 57-9714. "The Study of Law and Religion: An Apologia and Agenda," Ministry and Mission 14(Fall, 1988): 4-15 (with Frank S. Alexander) SSRN Entry – PDF Download15. "The Transformation of Western Legal Philosophy in Lutheran Germany," SouthernCalifornia Law Review 62 (1989): 1573-1660 (with Harold J. Berman) SSRN Entry – PDFDownload16. "How to Govern a City on the Hill: The Early Puritan Contribution to AmericanConstitutionalism," Emory Law Journal 39 (1990): 41-64 SSRN Entry – PDF Download17. "A Vacillating Justice: Religious Liberty in the United States," The Banner(December 16, 1991): 8-1018. "Tax Exemption of Church Property: Historical Anomaly or Valid ConstitutionalPractice?" Southern California Law Review 64 (1991): 363-415 SSRN Entry – PDFDownload19. "The Theology and Politics of the First Amendment Religion Clauses: A BicentennialEssay," Emory Law Journal 40 (1991): 489-50720. "From Homer to Hegel: Ideas of Law and Culture in the West," Michigan LawReview 89 (1991): 1618-1636 SSRN Entry – PDF Download21. Review of Derek Davis, Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course ofAmerican Church-State Relations (1991), The Christian Century 109 (1992): 248-252SSRN Entry – PDF Download22. "Whether Piety or Charity: Classification Issues in the Law Governing TaxExemption of Churches," in C. Cherry and R. Sherill, eds., Religion and the IndependentSector in America (Atlanta: American Academy of Religion Series/Scholars Press,1992), 135-165 SSRN Entry – PDF Download23. "The Plight of Canon Law in the Early Dutch Republic," in R.H. Helmholz, ed.,Canon Law in Protestant Lands (Berlin: Dunker & Humbolt, 1992), 135-164 SSRNEntry – PDF Download2
24. "Christianity and Democracy: Past Contributions and Future Challenges," EmoryInternational Law Review 6 (1992): 55-69 SSRN Entry – PDF Download24(a). Ibid., reprinted, with some revisions, in N.J.C. van den Bergh, ed., The Semioticsof Political Transition (Port Elizabeth: Vista University Press, 1996): 412-42124(b). Ibid., reprinted in Myroslav Marynovych, ed., Religious Freedom and HumanRights: Theological Aspects (Kiev/Moscow, 2000), 40-54 (Ukrainian)25. "The Integration of Religious Liberty," Michigan Law Review 90 (1992): 1363-1383SSRN Entry – PDF Download26. "A New Concordance of Discordant Canons: Harold J. Berman on Law andReligion," Emory Law Journal 42 (1993): 523-560 SSRN Entry – PDF Download26(a). Ibid., reprinted, with some revisions, in Howard O. Hunter, ed., Law inPerspective: The Integrative Jurisprudence of Harold J. Berman (Boulder/SanFrancisco: Westview Press, 1996), 99-13627. "The Development of Herman Dooyeweerd's Concept of Rights," South African LawJournal 110 (1993): 543-562 SSRN Entry – PDF Download27(a). Ibid., reprinted, with revisions, in Jonathan Chaplin and Paul Marshall, eds.,Political Theory and Christian Vision: Essays in Memory of Bernard J. Zylstra (Lanham,MD/New York: University Press of America, 1994), 27-5628. “Introduction,” to John Witte, Jr., ed., Christianity and Democracy in Global Context(Boulder, CO/San Francisco: Westview Press, 1993), 1-14 SSRN Entry – PDF Download29. "Towards an Integration of Law and Religion," in University of Pretoria, Centre forHuman Rights, Occasional Papers, No. 3 (November, 1993)29(a) Reprinted, with revisions, in N.J.C. van den Bergh, ed., The Semiotics of PoliticalTransition (Port Elizabeth: Vista University Press, 1996), 403-41130. "The Catholic Origins and Calvinist Orientation of Dutch Reformed Church Law,"Calvin Theological Journal 28 (1993): 328-351 SSRN Entry – PDF Download31. "The South African Experiment in Religious Human Rights: What Can Be LearnedFrom the American Experience?" Tydskrif vir Regswetenskap/Journal of JuridicalScience 18 (1993): 1-3232. "The Three Uses of the Law: A Protestant Source of the Purposes of CriminalPunishment?" Journal of Law and Religion 10 (1994): 433-465 (with Thomas C. Arthur)SSRN Entry – PDF Download3
32(a). Ibid., reprinted with revisions in Luis Lugo, ed., Religion in American Public Life(Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1994), 176-20033. "The Future of Religious Liberty in Russia: Report of the De Burght Conference onPending Russian Legislation Restricting Religious Liberty," Emory International LawReview 8 (1994): 1-66 (with W. Cole Durham, Jr., Pieter van Dijk, and Lauren B.Homer) SSRN Entry – PDF Download34. "The Educational Value of Law and Religion," Occasional Papers Issued by theUnited Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, No. 92 (October 1, 1994), 113 SSRN Entry – PDF Download35. "From Sacrament to Contract: The Legal Transformations of the Western Family,"Criterion 34 (Autumn, 1995): 1-11 SSRN Entry – PDF Download36. Review of Daniel J. Meeter, Meeting Each Other in Doctrine, Liturgy, andGovernment (1993), Calvin Theological Journal 29 (1995): 632-63337. Review of Leonard W. Levy, Blasphemy (1993), The Christian Century 112 (1995):89-91 SSRN Entry – PDF Download38. "The American Constitutional Experiment in Religious Human Rights: The PerennialSearch for Principles," in Johan D. van der Vyver and John Witte, Jr., eds., ReligiousHuman Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives (Dordrecht/London/Boston:Martinus Nijhoff, 1996), 499-559 (with M. Christian Green)39. “Introduction,” to John Witte, Jr. and Johan D. van der Vyver, eds., Religious HumanRights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives (Dordrecht/London/Boston:Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996), xvii-xxxv SSRN Entry – PDF Download40. "Reformation," in Seymour M. Lipset et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Democracy(Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1996), vol. 3, 1044-104641. "The Civic Seminary: The Sources of Modern Public Education in the LutheranReformation of Germany," Journal of Law and Religion 12 (1995-1996): 173-223 SSRNEntry – PDF Download42. "Introductory Remarks: The State of Religious Human Rights in the World Today -A Conference Report with Book Excerpts," Emory International Law Review 10 (1996):52-62 SSRN Entry – PDF Download42(a). Ibid., translated as "Les Droits de l'homme et la liberté religieuse dans le monde,"Conscience et liberté 51 (Spring, 1996): 18-2742(b). Ibid., translated as "I Diritto dell'uomo e la liberta religiosa nel mondo,” Coscienzae Liberta 27 (Spring 1996): 47-584
42(c). Ibid., translated as "Religiöse Menschenrechte heute," Gewissen und Freiheit46/47 (1996): 24-3543. "Judiciary," in Paul Barry Clarke and Andrew Linzey, eds., Dictionary of Ethics,Theology and Society (London: Routledge, 1996), 499-50144. "Law," in ibid., 513-51745. "The Essential Rights and Liberties of Religion in the American ConstitutionalExperiment," Notre Dame Law Review 71 (1996): 371-445 SSRN Entry – PDF Download45(a). Ibid., reprinted in part in Alan Brownstein, ed., The First Amendment -- TheEstablishment of Religion Clause: Its Constitutional History and the ContemporaryDebate (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008), 104-11746. Review of Jesse Choper, Securing Religious Liberty: Principles for JudicialInterpretation of the Religion Clauses (1995), The Christian Century 113 (1996): 521522 SSRN Entry – PDF Download47. "The Church's Legal Challenges in the Twenty-First Century," in Andrew R. Cecil,ed., The Moral Challenges of the Twenty First Century (Austin/Dallas: University ofTexas Press, 1996), 107-143 SSRN Entry – PDF Download48. "Law, Religion, and Human Rights," Columbia Human Rights Law Review 28(1996): 1-31 SSRN Entry – PDF Download48a. Ibid, excerpted in L’ubomir Martin Ondrášek and Ivan Mod’oroši, eds., Church andSociety: Towards Responsible Engagement / Cirkev a Spoločnost: Smerom kZodpovednej Angažavanosti (Ruzomberok, Slovakia: Verbum, 2015), 331-345, inSlovak as “Zákon, nábožensto a l’udské práva: Príklady z krest’anstva,” in ibid., 15016549. "Consulting a Living Tradition: The Christian Heritage of Marriage and Family," TheChristian Century 113 (November 13, 1996): 1108-111150. "The Costs and Benefits of a Christian Coalition: A Response to Ralph Reed,"Ethics at Emory 1(1) (1996): 41-43 SSRN Entry – PDF Download51. "Moderate Religious Liberty in the Theology of John Calvin," in Noel B. Reynoldsand W. Cole Durham, Jr., eds., Religious Liberty and Western Thought (Atlanta, GA:Scholars Press, 1996), 83-12251(a). Ibid., reprinted, with revisions, in Calvin Theological Journal 31 (1996): 359-403SSRN Entry – PDF Download5
51(b). Ibid., translated as "Moderate Religionsfreiheit in der Theologie JohannesCalvins,” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung (Kanonisches Abteilung) 114 (Spring, 1997):401-448 SSRN Entry – PDF Download52. "Dreptul, religia si pacea lumii," Altera 2(4) (1996): 50-69 (Romanian)53. "Law, Religion, and Human Rights in the World Democratic Revolution," IsraelYearbook of Human Rights 26 (1997): 87-11554. "Liberté‚ de religion et confessionnalite: Les projets de revision de la loi de 1990 dela Republique de Russie," Praxis juridique et religion 14 (1997): 3-81 (with W. ColeDurham, Jr. and Marie Zimmermann)55. "Introduction -- Soul Wars: The Problem and Promise of Proselytism in Russia,"Emory International Law Review 12 (1998): 1-42 SSRN Entry – PDF Download55(a). Ibid., revised and reprinted as “Introduction,” to John Witte, Jr. and MichaelBourdeaux, eds., Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999), 1-27 SSRN Entry – PDF Download56. "God's Joust, God's Justice," Calvin Spark 44 (Spring, 1998): 3857. "Droit," in Jean-Yves LaCoste, ed., Dictionnaire critique de theologie (Paris: PressesUniversitaires de France, 1998), 349-35258. “Introduction,” to Michael J. Broyde and John Witte, Jr., eds., Human Rights inJudaism: Cultural, Religious and Political Perspectives (New York: Jason AronsonPublishers, 1998), ix-xxii59. "Families in Medieval Christianity and the Reformation," in Herbert Anderson, et al.,eds., The Family Handbook (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998), 29129460. "Family: A Secular Legal Perspective," in ibid., 31-3361. "Between Sacrament and Contract: Marriage as Covenant in John Calvin'sGeneva," Calvin Theological Journal 32 (1998): 9-75 SSRN Entry – PDF Download61(a). Ibid., translated as "Zwischen Sakrament und Vertrag: Ehe als Bund im GenfJohannes Calvins," Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung (Kanonisches Abteilung) 115 (1998):386-469 SSRN Entry – PDF Download62. Contributor to "Roundtable Discussion of International Human Rights Standards inthe United States: The Case of Religion and Belief," Emory International Law Review 12(1998): 973-10206
62(a). Excerpted in “Bürgerrecht und Religion III. Nordamerika,” Die Religion inGeschichte und Gegenwart, 4. Aufl. (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1998; repr. 2007) SSRNEntry – PDF Download63. "Religion and Human Rights: A Historical Protestant Perspective," Annual of theAmerican Society of Christian Ethics 26 (1998): 257-262 SSRN Entry – PDF Download64. "God’s Joust, God’s Justice: Law and Religion in Western History," SMSU Journalof Public Affairs 2 (1998): 83-9065. "Oracle of Religious Liberty -- Review of John T. Noonan, Jr., The Lustre of theCountry: The American Experience of Religious Freedom (1998),” Green Bag 3, 2d ser.(1999): 327-332 SSRN Entry – PDF Download66. "Foreword," to John E. Coons and Patrick Brennan, By Nature Equal? The Anatomyof a Western Insight (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), xvii-xxiv SSRNEntry – PDF Download67. "'A Most Mild and Equitable Establishment of Religion': John Adams and the 1780Massachusetts Constitution," Journal of Church and State 41 (1999): 213-252 SSRNEntry – PDF Download67(a). Ibid., reprinted, with revisions, in James H. Hutson, ed., Religion and the NewRepublic: Faith in the Founding of America (Lanham/New York/Oxford: Rowman &Littlefield, 2000), 1-4067(b). Ibid., reprinted with further revisions, as "One Public Religion, Many PrivateReligions: John Adams and the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution," in Daniel L.Dreisbach, Mark D. Hall, and Jeffery R. Morrison, eds., The Founders on God andGovernment (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), 23-52 SSRN Entry – PDFDownload68. "In the Steps of Gratian: Writing the History of Canon Law in the 1990s,” Emory LawJournal 48 (1999): 647-688 (with Charles J. Reid, Jr.) SSRN Entry – PDF Download68(a). Ibid., excerpted as Review of R.H. Helmholz, The Spirit of the Classical CanonLaw (1996), Journal of Law and Religion 16 (2001): 367-370 SSRN Entry – PDF Download69. "Anglican Marriage Law in the Making: Becon, Bullinger, and Bucer," in Calvin Paterand Rodney Petersen, eds., The Contentious Triangle: Church, State, and University -A Festschrift in Honor of Professor George Huntston Williams (Kirksville, MO: ThomasJefferson University Press, 1999), 241-259 SSRN Entry – PDF Download70. “The Biology and Biography of Liberty: Abraham Kuyper and the AmericanExperiment," in Koers 64(2/3) (1999): 173-195 [Festschrift Issue for Johan D. van derVyver]7
70(a). Ibid., reprinted in abridged form in Luis Lugo, ed., Religion, Pluralism, and PublicLife: Abraham Kuyper's Legacy for the Twenty-First Century (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B.Eerdmans, 2000), 243-262 SSRN Entry – PDF Download71. "God's Joust, God's Justice: The Revelations of Legal History," PrincetonTheological Seminary Bulletin 20 (1999): 295-313 SSRN Entry – PDF Download72. “Review of Gϋnther Haas, The Concept of Equity in Calvin's Ethics (1997),” Studiesin Christian Ethics 12 (1999): 107-110 SSRN Entry – PDF Download73. “Introduction,” to “Symposium: Pluralism, Proselytism, and Nationalism in EasternEurope,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 36 (Winter/Spring 1999): 1-6 SSRN Entry – PDFDownload74. “Preface,” to John Witte, Jr. and Richard C. Martin, eds., Sharing the Book:Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism (Maryknoll, NY: OrbisBooks, 1999), xi-xviii SSRN Entry – PDF Download75. "An Apt and Cheerful Conversation on Marriage," in R. Bruce Douglass and JoshMitchell, eds., A Nation Under God? Essays on the Fate of Religion in American PublicLife (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Co., 2000), 91-110 SSRN Entry – PDFDownload75(a). Ibid., reprinted in Occasional Paper Series, New College, The University ofEdinburgh (2001)75(b). Ibid., reprinted in expanded form in Emory University Distinguished FacultyLecture Series (2001)75(c). Ibid, reprinted as “Retrieving and Reconstructing Law, Religion, and Marriage inthe Western Tradition,” in Steven M. Tipton and John Witte, Jr., eds., FamilyTransformed: Religion, Values, and Family Life in Interdisciplinary Perspective(Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005), 244-26975(d). Ibid., revised as “Marriage in International Perspective,” in K. Padmaja, ed., TheLaw of Marriage (New Delhi: Amicus Books, 2007), 65-9576. Review of Adrian Thatcher, Marriage after Modernity (1998), Theology Today 57(October, 2000): 417-420 SSRN Entry – PDF Download77. “Soul Wars,” in Max L. Stackhouse, et al., eds., The Local Church in a Global Era(Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000), 182-19278. “Preface,” to “Symposium: The Problem of Proselytism in Southern Africa,” EmoryInternational Law Review 14(2) (2000): ix-xv8
79. “Human Rights and the Right to Proselytize: Inherent Contradictions?” AmericanSociety of International Law Proceedings 94 (2000): 181-18380. "Canon Law in Lutheran Germany: A Surprising Case of Legal Transplantation," inMichael Hoeflich, ed., Lex et Romanitas: Essays for Alan Watson (Berkeley, CA:University of California Press-Robbins Collection, 2000), 181-224 SSRN Entry – PDFDownload81. “A Primer on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism,” Fides et Libertas 2000: TheJournal of the International Religious Liberty Association (2000): 12-1781(a). Ibid., reprinted in expanded form in Cumberland Law Review 31 (2001): 619-630SSRN Entry – PDF Download81(b). Ibid., updated in “Soul Wars: New Battles, New Norms,” Faith and InternationalAffairs 5 (2007): 13-2382. "A Dickensian Era of Religious Rights: An Update on Religious Human Rights inGlobal Perspective," William & Mary Law Review 42 (2001): 707-770 SSRN Entry – PDFDownload82(a). Ibid., reprinted in Emmanuel Clapsis, ed., Violence and Christian Spirituality: AnEcumenical Conversation (Geneva: WCC Publications, 2007), 171-211.83. “Family,” in Erwin Fahlbusch, ed., The Encyclopedia of Christianity (GrandRapids/Cambridge/Leiden/Boston: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and E.J. Brill,2001), vol. 2, 285-289 SSRN Entry – PDF Download84. "The Spirit of the Laws, The Law of the Spirits," in Max L. Stackhouse and Don S.Browning, eds., God and Globalization: The Spirit and the Modern Authorities(Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001), 76-10685. “The Goods and Goals of Marriage,” Notre Dame Law Review 76 (2001): 1019-1071SSRN Entry – PDF Download85(a). Ibid, reprinted as “The Goods and Goals of Marriage: The Health Paradigm inHistorical Perspective,” in John Wall, Don Browning, William J. Doherty, and StephenPost, eds., Marriage, Health and the Professions (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. EerdmansPublishing Co., 2002), 49-8986. "God's Joust, God's Justice: An Illustration from the History of Marriage Law," inMichael W. McConnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., and Angela C. Carmella, eds., ChristianPerspectives on Legal Thought (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), 406-42586(a). Ibid., excerpted as “Confessions of a Christian Historian,” First Things 139 (Jan.2004): 16-17 SSRN Entry – PDF Download9
87. “Freedom of a Christian: The Lutheran Reformation as Revolution,” Journal of theHistorical Society 2 (Summer, 2001): 109-121 SSRN Entry – PDF Download88. Review of Daniel L. Dreisbach, Religion and Politics in the Early Republic: JasperAdams and the Church-State Debate (1997), Journal of Law and Religion 16 (2001):565-568 SSRN Entry – PDF Download89. “Looking Back/Where are we Going,” in Katherine Anderson, et al., eds., Marriage:Just a Piece of Paper? (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002),230-241, 41090. “’A Page of History Is Worth a Volume of Logic’: Charting the Legal Pilgrimage ofPublic Religion in America," in Edith Blumhofer, ed., Religion, Politics, and the AmericanExperience: Reflections on Religion and American Public Life (Tuscaloosa and London:University of Alabama Press, 2002), 44-6190(a) Excerpted as “Opinion: Faith and Politics Step Out,” Globe and Mail (August 28,2003) SSRN Entry – PDF Download90(b) Excerpted as "Publick Religion: Adams v. Jefferson,” First Things 141 (March,2004): 29-34 SSRN Entry – PDF Download91. “An Evangelical Commonwealth: Johannes Eisermann on Law and the CommonGood,” in David M. Whitford, ed., Caritas et Reformatio: Essays in Honor of CarterLindberg (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2002), 73-87 SSRN Entry – PDFDownload92. “The Meanings of Marriage,” First Things 126 (October, 2002): 30-41 SSRN Entry –PDF Download93. “Protestantism, Law and Legal Thought,” in A.E. McGrath and D.C. Marks, eds.,The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002), 298305 SSRN Entry – PDF Download94. “Overview: Religious Liberty in America,” First Amendment Center, (Jan. 3, -religious-liberty-in-america95. “Ishmael’s Bane: The Sin and Crime of Illegitimacy Reconsidered,” Punishment andSociety 5 (2003): 327-346 SSRN Entry – PDF Download95(a). Ibid., reprinted as “Afterword,” to Timothy P. Jackson, ed., The Morality ofAdoption: Social-Psychological, Theological, and Legal Perspectives (Grand Rapids,MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2005), 283-30796. “Between Sanctity and Depravity: Law and Human Nature in Martin Luther’s TwoKingdoms,” Villanova Law Review 48 (2003): 727-762 SSRN Entry – PDF Download10
97. “Church, State, and Marriage: Three Reformation Models,” Word and World 23(Winter, 2003): 40-6898. “The Tradition of Traditional Marriage,” in Lynn Wardle, et al., eds., Marriage andSame-Sex Unions (New York: Praeger, 2003), 47-5998(a). Excerpted as "Editorial Opinion," Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 22,2004)99. “Response to Mark Strasser,” in Lynn Wardle, et al., Marriage and Same-SexUnions (New York: Praeger, 2003), 43-46100. “Between Sanctity and Depravity: Human Dignity in Protestant Perspective,” inRobert P. Kraynak and Glenn Tinder, eds., In Defense of Human Dignity: Essays for ourTimes (Notre Dame/London: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003), 119-138 SSRNEntry – PDF Download101. “That Serpentine Wall of Separation,” Michigan Law Review 101 (2003): 18691905 SSRN Entry – PDF Download102. “Protestantism,” in James J. Ponzetti, Jr., ed., The International Encyclopedia ofMarriage and Family, 2d ed. (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003), 1285-1290102(a). Reprinted and updated in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Families, Marriages, andIntimate Relationships (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2019), 695-696103. “Law and Legal Theory,” in Erwin Fahlbusch, ed., The Encyclopedia of Christianity(Grand Rapids/Cambridge/ Leiden/Boston: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and Brill,2003), 219-226 SSRN Entry – PDF Download103(a). Excerpted and revised as “Law,” in Ian A. McFarland, et al., eds., TheCambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 274276 SSRN Entry – PDF Download104. “Male Headship: Reform of the Protestant Tradition,” in David Blankenhorn, Don S.Browning, and Mary Stewart van Leeuwen, eds., Does Christianity Teach MaleHeadship? The Equal Regard Family and its Critics (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B.Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2004), 28-39 SSRN Entry – PDF Download105. “Covenant Liberty in Puritan New England,” in Frederick S. Carney, HeinzSchilling, and Dieter Wyduckel, eds., Jurisprudenz, Politische Theorie und PolitischeTheologie (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004), 169-189 SSRN Entry – PDF Download106. “From Establishment to Freedom of Public Religion,” Capital University LawReview 32 (2004): 499-518 SSRN Entry – PDF Download11
106(a). Excerpted as “The New Freedom of Public Religion,” Journal of Lutheran Ethics(04.01.2005) https://www.elca.org/JLE/Articles/686107. “Politics,” in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., Encyclopedia of Protestantism (London/NewYork: Routledge, 2004), 1509-1518 SSRN Entry – PDF Download108. “Democracy,” in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., Encyclopedia of Protestantism(London/New York: Routledge, 2004), 574-576 SSRN Entry – PDF Download109. “Introduction: The Foundations of Law,” Emory Law Journal 54 (2005): 1-11 (withThomas C. Arthur) SSRN Entry – PDF Download110. “Religious Liberty (Foundations),” in Erwin Fahlbusch, ed., The Encyclopedia ofChristianity (Grand Rapids/Cambridge/ Leiden/Boston: Wm. B. Eerdmans PublishingCo. and Brill, 2005), vol. 4, 597-605111. “Rights,” in Erwin Fahlbusch, ed., The Encyclopedia of Christianity (GrandRapids/Cambridge/ Leiden/Boston: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and Brill, 2005),vol. 4, 701-709 SSRN Entry – PDF Download112. “Introduction,” to John Witte, Jr. and Eliza Ellison, eds., Covenant Marriage inComparative Perspective (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005),1-25 (with Joel A. Nichols) SSRN Entry – PDF Download113. “Introduction: No Place Like Home,” in Steven M. Tipton and John Witte, Jr., eds.,Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Family Life in Interdisciplinary Perspective(Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005), 1-20 (with Steven M. Tipton)114. “Law and Religion: The Challenges of Christian Jurisprudence,” St. Thomas LawJournal 2 (2005): 439-452 SSRN Entry – PDF Download115. “Intelligent Design v. Evolution: Both Right and Left Misguided in Fight,” AtlantaJournal and Constitution (December 23, 2005): A15 SSRN Entry – PDF Download115(a). Ibid., reprinted in Emory Report 58, No. 15 (January 17, 2006)116. “Introduction,” to John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander, eds., Modern ChristianTeachings on Law, Politics, and Human Nature (New York/London: Columbia UniversityPress, 2006), ix-xvi SSRN Entry – PDF Download117. “Introduction,” to John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander, eds., Modern ChristianTeachings on Law, Politics, and Human Nature: Primary Sources, (New York/London:Columbia University Press, 2006), xxi-xxxvii118. “Introduction,” to Don S. Browning, M. Christian Green, and John Witte, Jr., eds.,Sex, Marriage, and Family in the World Religions (New York/London: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2006), xvi-xxix SSRN Entry – PDF Download12
119. “Facts and Fictions About the History of Separation of Church and State,” Journalof Church and State 48 (2006): 15-46 SSRN Entry – PDF Download119(a). Reprinted with revisions in Hans Erich Rasmussen, et al. eds,. Balancing ofInterests: Liber Amicorum Peter Hay zum. 70. Geburtstag (Frankfurt am Main: VerlagRecht und Wirtschaft GmbH, 2005), 483-494120. “Foreword,” to Natan Lerner, Religion, Secular Beliefs, and Human Rights: 25Years After the 1981 Declaration (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2006), ix-xv SSRNEntry – PDF Download121. “Foreword,” to “Symposium on What’s Wrong with Rights for Children?” EmoryInternational Law Review 20 (2006): i-iv SSRN Entry – PDF Download122. “The Perils of Celibacy: Clerical Celibacy and Marriage in Early ProtestantPerspective,” in Lisa Cahill and John Garvey, eds., Sexuality in the Catholic Tradition(Lexington, KY: Crossroad Publishers, 2006), 107-119 SSRN Entry – PDF Download123. “Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother? Child Marriage and Parental Consent in JohnCalvin’s Geneva,” Journal of Religion 86 (2006): 580-605 SSRN Entry – PDF Download123(a). Ibid., published in N. Sudarshan, ed., Consent and Law: Problems andPerspectives (Hyderabad, India: Amicus Books Icfai University Press, 2008), 103-129124. Editorial Opinion, “Separation of Church and State,” Atlanta Journal andConstitution (November 26, 2006): B1125. “Preface,” to Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte, Jr., eds., To Have and to Hold:Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 (Cambridge/NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 2007), ix-xiv126. “Marriage Contracts, Liturgies, and Properties in Reformation Geneva,” in ibid.,453-488 SSRN Entry – PDF Download127. “A Manifold Resurrection,” Christianity Today 51(4) (April, 2007): 62-64128. “Introduction: The Foundations and Frontiers of Religious Liberty,” EmoryInternational Law Review 21 (2007): 1-12 SSRN Entry – PDF Download128(a). Ibid., translated in John Witte, Jr., The Foundations and Frontiers of ReligiousLiberty Symposium of Seven Countries (Beijing: China Democracy and Legal SystemPress, 2018), 1-10129. “Prime fondazioni moderne protestanti della democrazia,” Concilium rivistainternazionale di teologia 4 (2007): 38-52 SSRN Entry – PDF Download13
129(a). Ibid., reprinted and translated as “Frühneuzeitliche protestantische Grundlagender Demokratie,” Concilium Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie 43 (2007): 399-409SSRN Entry – PDF Download130. “Preface,” to John Witte, Jr., M. Christian Green, and Amy Wheeler, eds., TheEqual Regard Family and its Friendly Critics: Don S. Browning and the PracticalTheological Ethics of the Family (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,2007), vii-x SSRN Entry – PDF Download131. Brett T. Wilmot and John Witte, Jr. God’s Joust, God’s Justice; Conversations inReligion and Theology (17 October 2007), Wiley on Line .1111/j.1479-2214.2007.00121.xSSRN Entry – PDF Download132. “Religious Foundations of Western Rights: Towards a New History,” Diamon:Annuario di diritto comparato delle religione 7 (2007): 49-70133. “The Future of Marriage: State Laws and Religious Law Cannot Co-exist . . . CanThey?” Atlanta Journal and Constitution (February 24, 2008): B1133(a). Ibid., reprinted as “The Archbishop and Marital Pluralism: An AmericanPerspective,” Ecclesiastical Law Journal 10 (2008): 344-347133(b). Ibid., reprinted in John Eekelaar, ed., Family Rights an
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