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Building Cultures of Trust

September 11 and conspiratorial thinking, the economic crisis, banks and lenders, mistrust of government as a rescue agency, mortgage-lending to foreclosures,... more

Called to Happiness: Where Faith and Psychology Meet

This account of "the new science of happiness" not only supports traditional faith but gives examples that we can use to live a fulfilling life. It... more

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Book Series

Emory University Studies in Law and Religion

Published in collaboration with the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, this series is intended to foster exploration of the religious dimensions of law, the legal dimensions of religion, and the interaction of legal and religious ideas, institutions, and methods. Written by leading scholars of law, political science, and related fields, these volumes will help meet the growing demand for literature in the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of law and religion. 

Title Author, Editor, or Contributor Research Project Research Perspective Links
Building Cultures of Trust, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010 New Martin E. Marty
    		Philosophical Perspectives
    Early New England: A Covenanted Society, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005 David A. Weir
    The Fabric of Hope: An Essay, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003 Glenn Tinder
      Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and Religion, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993 Harold J. Berman Legal Perspectives
      God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006 John Witte, Jr. Historical Perspectives
      The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law, and Church Law 1150-1625, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997 Brian Tierney Historical Perspectives
      Justice in Love, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011 Nicholas P. Wolterstorff
        Lex Charitatis, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010 New Johannes Heckel
        Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 Glenn Tinder
        Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010 New Jean Porter Religious Perspectives
        Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010 New David VanDrunen
          		Historical Perspectives
          Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991 James W. Skillen, Rockne M. McCarthy
            Power Over the Body, Equal Rights in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004 Historical Perspectives
            Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006 Stephen Grabill
            Religion and Happiness: Perspectives from Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014 Forthcoming Religious Perspectives
            Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996 John Witte, Jr., Johan D. van der Vyver Legal Perspectives
            Religious Liberty in Western Thought, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996 W. Cole Durham, Jr., Noel B. Reynolds Historical Perspectives
            Religious Liberty: Volume One - Overviews and History, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010 New Douglas Laycock Legal Perspectives
            Religious Liberty: Volume Two - The Free Exercise Clause, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011 New Douglas Laycock Legal Perspectives
            Suing for America's Soul: John Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute, and Conservative Christians in the Courts, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 R. Jonathan Moore Legal Perspectives
            The Ten Commandments in History: Mosaic Paradigms for a Well-Ordered Society , William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004 Paul Kuntz
              Theology of Law and Authority in the English Reformation, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991 Joan O'Donovan

                Religion, Marriage and Family Series

                Published in collaboration with Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company this new series investigates marriage and family as major theological and cultural issues. Given that both society and the church have debated these topics intensely but have actually studied them very little, this series attempts to correct recent theological neglect of these important matters.

                Title Author, Editor, or Contributor Research Project Research Perspective Links
                The Book of Marriage, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001 Dana Mack, David Blankenhorn
                  		Matters of Concern
                  The Child in Christian Thought, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001 Marcia J. Bunge Religious Perspectives
                  Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006 Don S. Browning†
                  Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005 John Witte, Jr., Eliza Ellison Historical Perspectives
                  Does Christianity Teach Male Headship? The Equal-Regard Marriage and Its Critics, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004 Don S. Browning†, David Blankenhorn, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen Religious Perspectives
                  Early Christian Families in Context, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003 David L. Balch, Carolyn Osiek
                    The Equal-Regard Family and its Friendly Critics: Don Browning and the Practical Theological Ethics of the Family, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 M Christian Green, Amy Wheeler, John Witte, Jr.
                    Equality and the Family: A Fundamental Practical Theology of Children, Mothers, and Fathers in Modern Societies, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 Don S. Browning†
                    Marriage - Just a Piece of Paper?, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002 Don S. Browning†, Katherine Anderson, Brian Boyer
                      Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What to Do about It, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003 Don S. Browning†
                      The Morality of Adoption: Social-Psychological, Theological, and Legal Perspectives , William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005 Timothy P. Jackson Religious Perspectives
                      More Lasting Unions: Christianity, the Family, and Society, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000 Stephen G. Post
                        The Mystery of the Child, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 Martin E. Marty
                        Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva I: Courtship, Engagement, Marriage, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005 John Witte, Jr., Robert M. Kingdon Historical Perspectives
                        The Vocation of the Child, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008 Patrick M. Brennan Legal Perspectives