PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
John Witte, Jr. is Robert W. Woodruff University Professor, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published numerous articles and 30 books, including Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (Cambridge 2002), The Reformation of Rights (Cambridge 2007), Christianity and Law (Cambridge 2008), The Sins of the Fathers (Cambridge 2009), Christianity and Human Rights (Cambridge 2010), and The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy (Cambridge 2015). Gary S. Hauk is University Historian and former Vice-President and Deputy to the President of Emory University. He is the author of A Legacy of Heart and Mind: Emory Since 1836 and editor of Where Courageous Inquiry Leads, and has published numerous essays.
'The authors and editors seek to provide both legal and historical frameworks for the development of family law, stressing the relationship between Christian teachings and various topics. Most are experts on the personages discussed, frequently noting that their contributions are taken from larger works. Almost every chapter reveals new insights, and sometimes the figures themselves are novel (at least to this reader), even though their thoughts may creep into the modern discourse on the family. The editors seek to balance the various divisions in contemporary Christianity and largely succeed. They also include a variety of disciplines.' Margaret F. Brinig, Journal of Church and State
