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The Legal Legacy of the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law

The Legal Legacy of the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law

Author: John Duddington
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367209087
Published In: November 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The growing interest in the relationship between religion and law is, in the case of Christianity, often viewed in monolithic terms. Moreover, the debate is often seen in terms of the relationship of Christianity to the State along with discussions about, for example, religious freedom. Christianity is often seen as responding to claims made on it by the state and by the growth of secularism. This book takes a different approach. First, it makes the claim that Christianity has something of value to say about various pressing issues which are of direct relevance to contemporary society. Amongst these are the place of human rights and that of individual claims of conscience. Second, it does not regard Christianity as a monolithic whole but takes as its starting point the sundering of Christendom at the Reformation which, it claims, led in many cases to divergent patterns of thought between Catholics and Protestants about law and its place in society. However, as this book shows, in many cases Catholic and Protestant thinking on areas such as natural law is not as divergent as it is often thought. 500 years after the Reformation, the work presents a reflection on the roots of Catholic and Protestant thinking on law and its place in society. It will be of interest to canon lawyers as well as academics and students of law and religion.

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part One: Church law and the Reformation

Ch.

1 A comparative account of Protestant and Catholic approaches to church law: law in the life of the visible church

Norman Doe

Ch.

2 How the English and Scots Reformations shaped Ecclesiastical and Secular law in Great Britain

Frank Cranmer

Ch.3 The Reformation and Legal Change: The Persistence of Medieval Canon Law

Richard Helmholz

Part Two: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law in the Life of the Church