What's New
March, 2020: Witte's Gifford Lecture, to be delivered in Aberdeen, Scotland in October 2020, will be titled "Between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King: The American Protestant Struggle to Abolish Slavery and Protect Liberty for All"
February, 2019: New brochure released by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion: Law and Christianity
January, 2019: Audio interview posted - "The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy" - New Books Network, New Books in Law
January, 2019: New book to be published March 2019 (UK) and May 2019 (USA): Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties
December, 2018: Witte named Gifford Lecturer for Scottish series' bicentennial celebration
December, 2018: Update on Cambridge Law and Christianity Series
September, 2018: New book published, edited by John Witte, Jr. (with Amy Wheeler): The Protestant Reformation of the Church and the World
July, 2018: The McDonald Distinguished Scholar Lectures in Christian Scholarship was held May 23-25, 2018, at Christ Church in Oxford, with a theme of Is Religious Freedom Under Threat? A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue
March, 2018: Witte lecture reviewed in Fresh Thinking Magazine of the Center for Theological Inquiry
February, 2018: Spanish translation of Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment published
December, 2017: Italian translation of The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy published
November, 2017: Audio of Reformation Anniversary Lecture, Center of Theological Inquiry added to the "Lectures" page
October, 2017: New CSLR Leadership Profile added to the "About" page
August, 2017: New Cambridge Law and Christianity Series flyer released
August, 2017: New book published, edited by John Witte, Jr. (with Gary S. Hauk): Christianity and Family Law
August, 2017: Polish translation of The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism published
January, 2017: New book published, edited by John Witte, Jr. (with Sara McDougall and Anna di Robilant): Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue
September, 2016: McDonald Agape Foundation commits $1 million to advance Witte's work in Christianity and law
September, 2016: Witte receives lifetime achievement award in family law
April, 2016: John Witte, Jr. and Joel A. Nichols have now published the fourth edition of their classic classroom text, Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, newly available from Oxford University Press