This study contributes to research on changing gender ideologies in marriage by focusing on a unique group of marriage innovators. We compare and contrast newlywed couples who chose covenant marriage, a new legal option in Louisiana primarily attractive to those of evangelical faiths, with couples who chose standard marriage. With quantitative and qualitative data from the Marriage Matters proj...

desires of saving souls’ (p. 87). Personal assurance was deemed to be essential and those who denied it were accused of Arminianism, yet preachers strove to undermine it, for fear of laxity creeping in. Robert Baillie prescribed ‘a diligent effort “to make our personall Election sure” ’ (p. 99). On the one hand, divine grace is irresistible, but on the other the preacher demands effort from the...

The transfer of control rights to lenders makes debt covenant violations costly to equityholders and managers, and provides managers with an incentive to manipulate covenant ratios and amounts. We find that the information contained in changes in the probability of covenant violations is priced by the stock market, incremental to changes in firm fundamentals. This relation is stronger when firm...

the verse on “the world of primal covenant (‘alam al-zarr)” is among difficult quranic verses whose difficulty can be discovered by consideration of different opinions, which are sometimes opposite to one another, presented by quranic commentators. having accepted the existence of “the world of primal covenant,” mulla sadra has interpreted and expounded that world in accordance with his philoso...

This essay explores and challenges the two primary ethical arguments for assessment, accountability, and professional responsibility, by demonstrating their strengths and exposing their weaknesses, which are rooted in their limited notions of community, contract, and guild respectively. In contrast, I argue for assessment on the basis of an ethic of covenantal obligation which incorporates both...

We extend prior research on the association between premarital cohabitation and marital outcomes by investigating whether covenant marriage, which entails more stringent requirements for divorce, minimizes the deleterious eVects of cohabitation on subsequent marital quality and stability. Using a unique longitudinal data set of covenant and standard newlywed couples in Louisiana, we Wnd that co...