education, marriage, and the relief of the poor. The Reformers were indebted to medieval and humanist legal teachings, but the Reformation “was not a revision or reversion of medieval legal thought but rather a skillful blend of Catholic and Evangelical, as well as canon and civil law doctrines and teachings” (Witte, Law and Protestantism, 184). The Reformation did not produce a uniform jurisprudence. The Reformers used and developed legal science from different perspectives. In general, natural