Christian Marriage

A thoughtful and highly enjoyable collection of essays exploring the historical development of Christian marriage from a Catholic perspective. This new volume includes Francis Martin: Marriage in the Biblical Period: The Old Testament and Intertestamental Period and Marriage in the Biblical Period: The New Testament; Glenn Olsen: The Good of Marriage in the Age of Augustine and Marriage in the Barbarian Kingdom and the Christian Court (Fifth through Eleventh Centuries); Teresa Pierre: Marriage Body and Sacrament in the Age of Hugh of St. Victor (Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries); Robert V. Young: Marriage and The Reformation; James Hitchcock: The Emergence of the Modern Family; and John Haas: Marriage in the Twentieth Century.