The Question of Marriage and Divorce: A Starting Point
I talk to a lot of people about divorce. This can sometimes be unfortunate (I can’t say I recommend it as a topic for a first date or wedding reception; lessons learned), but also profoundly useful. As a historian, my interests can be esoteric and detached. I want to know how the doctrine of divorce and remarriage related to 1920s Fundamentalism or the failed Uniform Divorce Law movement of the 1880s or the rising biblical counseling movement of the 1950s (because it did and