Book Description
Canon Law, Religion, and Politics extends and honors the work of the distinguished historian Robert Somerville, a preeminent expert on medieval church councils, law, and papal history.
Author : Uta-Renate Blumenthal
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 0813219752
Canon Law, Religion, and Politics extends and honors the work of the distinguished historian Robert Somerville, a preeminent expert on medieval church councils, law, and papal history.
Author : Christian Thomasius
Publisher : Natural Law and Enlightenment
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
The essays selected here for translation derive largely from Thomasius's work on Staatskirchenrecht, or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works, originating as disputations, theses, and pamphlets, were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state in which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population and nobility as well as a significant Catholic minority. In mandating limited religious toleration within the German states, the provisions of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) also provided the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia with a way of keeping the powerful Lutheran church in check by guaranteeing a degree of religious freedom to non-Lutherans and thereby detaching the state from the most powerful territorial church. Thomasius's writings on church-state relations, many of them critical of the civil claims made by Lutheran theologians, are a direct response to this state of affairs. At the same time, owing to the depth of intellectual resources at his disposal, these works constitute a major contribution to the broader discussion of the relation between the religious and political spheres.
Author : R. H. Helmholz
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0820334634
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Author : Anders Winroth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1009063952
Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon law also regulated the clergy and the Church, one of the most important institutions in the Middle Ages. This Cambridge History offers a comprehensive survey of canon law, both chronologically and thematically. Written by an international team of scholars, it explores, in non-technical language, how it operated in the daily life of people and in the great political events of the time. The volume demonstrates that medieval canon law holds a unique position in the legal history of Europe. Indeed, the influence of medieval canon law, which was at the forefront of introducing and defining concepts such as 'equity,' 'rationality,' 'office,' and 'positive law,' has been enormous, long-lasting, and remarkably diverse.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2023
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ISBN : 9789392340642
Author : Brian H. Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400856973
Clarifying the growing role of the Latin American Catholic Church as an agent of social change, Brian H. Smith discusses the prophetic function of the Chilean Church during the country's metamorphosis from Conservative to Christian Democratic to Marxist to repressive military regime. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : P. Trudel
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Canon law
ISBN :
Author : Rhidian Jones
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 056761641X
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Author : Daniel H. Levine
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 9780691615349
This book explores the transformations in religion in conjunction with political change. Professor Levine suggests, highlights the dynamic and dialectical interaction between religion and politics in general, and addresses the more universal problem of relating thought to action. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : W. Cole Durham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317107381
What is the place assigned to religion in the constitutions of contemporary States? What role is religion expected to perform in the fields that are the object of constitutional regulation? Is separation of religion and politics a necessary precondition for democracy and the rule of law? These questions are addressed in this book through an analysis of the constitutional texts that are in force in different parts of the world. Constitutions are at the centre of almost all contemporary legal systems and provide the principles and values that inspire the action of the national law-makers. After a discussion of some topics that are central to the constitutional regulation of religion, the book considers a number of national systems covering countries with a variety of religious and cultural backgrounds. The final section of the book is devoted to the discussion of the constitutional regulation of some particularly controversial issues, such as religious education, the relation between freedom of speech and freedom of religion, abortion, and freedom of conscience.