[PDF] Ancient And Modern Church Law eBook

Author : Judith Hahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108483259

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Discusses natural law as a traditional but highly contested source of canon law.

Author : James A. Brundage
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226077896

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This monumental study of medieval law and sexual conduct explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a comprehensive history of legal doctrines–covering the millennium from A.D. 500 to 1500–concerning a wide variety of sexual behavior, including marital sex, adultery, homosexuality, concubinage, prostitution, masturbation, and incest. His survey makes strikingly clear how the system of sexual control in a world we have half-forgotten has shaped the world in which we live today. The regulation of marriage and divorce as we know it today, together with the outlawing of bigamy and polygamy and the imposition of criminal sanctions on such activities as sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, and bestiality, are all based in large measure upon ideas and beliefs about sexual morality that became law in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. "Brundage's book is consistently learned, enormously useful, and frequently entertaining. It is the best we have on the relationships between theological norms, legal principles, and sexual practice."—Peter Iver Kaufman, Church History

Author : John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107184754

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Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.

Author : Richard E. Averbeck
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830899545

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How does the Old Testament Law fits into the arc of the Bible, and how it relevant to the church today? Exploring how God intended the Law to work in its original context as well as the New Testament perspective on the Law, Richard Averbeck argues that the whole Law applies to Christians—our task is to discern how it applies in the light of Christ.

Author : Clarence Gallagher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1351951580

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This book presents a comparative study of church order in the East and West of the Christian world. It deals with the development of canon law from the 6th century, the time of Dionysius Exiguus and John Scholastikos, up to the period of Balsamon and Gratian. While the focus is upon Rome and Constantinople, the author includes in his discussion the churches under Islamic rule, in Syria and Persia, and describes the beginnings of Slavonic canon law in Moravia. The issues of church government, the discipline of the clergy (married or celibate), and the question of divorce and re-marriage are key themes. By illustrating how these were faced in the canon law of the Christian churches of late antiquity and the earlier Middle Ages, the book highlights questions of unity and diversity within the Christian tradition.

Author : Willem VanGemeren
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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"The Protestant Reformation sparked an ongoing debate among Christians on the relationship between the Law and the Gospel as part of the discussion of the relationship of the Old and New Testaments. Questions such as these are being asked: Do the Law and the Gospel belong to two separate dispensations? Has the Gospel replaced the Law? What is the relevance of the Old Testament Law to our lives as Christians? Is there continuity between it and what Christ expects of us in the Gospel?" "It is no secret that Christians have differed widely on these questions. This book, using the familiar format of a "Views" book, explores five major approaches to this important biblical topic that have developed in Protestant circles. Each of the five authors presents his particular perspective on the issue and responds to the other four."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved