Comparative Church Law: toward the Category of Christian Law
This article compares the contemporary laws and other regulatory instruments of institutional churches across ten ecclesiastical traditions (or church families) worldwide: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed, Presbyterian, Congregational, United, and Baptist. The study examin...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2015]
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Studia canonica
Year: 2015, Volume: 49, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 161-204 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church law
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IxTheo Classification: | SB Catholic Church law SC Church law; Anglican Church SD Church law; Protestant Church SE Church law; Orthodox Church |
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Summary: | This article compares the contemporary laws and other regulatory instruments of institutional churches across ten ecclesiastical traditions (or church families) worldwide: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed, Presbyterian, Congregational, United, and Baptist. The study examines norms in relation to the sources and purposes of regulation; the faithful (lay and ordained); the institutions of church governance; discipline and dispute resolution; doctrine and worship; the rites of passage; ecumenism; property and finance; and church, state, and wider society. The juridical similarities between the churches within each tradition indicate that all the churches share common principles in spite of their doctrinal divisions, and that the existence of these principles suggests the category 'Christian law'. It proposes that whilst dogmas divide the churches of global Christianity, the profound similarities between their norms of conduct reveal that the laws of the faithful, whatever their various denominational affiliations, link Christians through common forms of action. Cet article compare les lois contemporaines et d'autres instruments de régulation des églises institutionnelles dans une dizaine de traditions ecclésiastiques (ou familles de l'église) à travers le monde: catholique, orthodoxe, anglicane, luthérienne, méthodiste, réformée, presbytérienne, congrégationaliste, unie, et baptiste. L'étude examine les normes en relation avec les sources et les objectifs de la réglementation; les fidèles (laïcs et ordonnés); les institutions de gouvernance de l'église; la discipline et le règlement des différends; la doctrine et le culte; les rites de passage; l'\u0153cuménisme; les biens et les finances; l'église, l'état, et la société en général. Les similitudes juridiques entre les églises au sein de chaque tradition indiquent que toutes les églises partagent des principes communs en dépit de leurs divisions doctrinales et que l'existence de ces principes suggère la catégorie «loi chrétienne». L'article montre qu'au moment, les dogmes divisent les églises de la chrétienté mondiale, les profondes similitudes entre leurs normes de conduite révèlent que les lois des fidèles, en dépit de leurs diverses appartenances confessionnelles, lient les chrétiens à travers des formes d'action communes. |
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ISSN: | 0039-310X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia canonica
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/STC.49.1.3082843 |