Marriage and Divorce in the Thought of Martin Bucer (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, V. 48)

A revealing and stimulating description of the sixteenth-century reformer and his theory and practice of marriage and divorce. Bucer was known as a marriage broker as well as a marriage breaker; his views were first rejected and later neglected, yet they have an all-time freshness. Marriage and Divorce offers Bucer's revolutionary and astonishingly modern views on divorce. It takes away the misunderstandings that have for centuries surrounded Bucer in this matter and it is an important contribution to gender studies.