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The legal legacy of the reformation : Catholic and Protestant approaches to law / edited by John Duddington

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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
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1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages).
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Duddington, John
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List of ContributorsAcknowledgements Preface Part One: Church Law and the ReformationCh. 1 A Comparative Account of Protestant and Catholic Approaches to Church Law: Law in the Life of the Visible ChurchNorman DoeCh. 2 How the English and Scots Reformations Shaped Ecclesiastical and Secular Law in Great BritainFrank CranmerCh.3 The Reformation and Legal Change: The Persistence of Medieval Canon LawRichard HelmholzPart Two:Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law in the Life of the Church Ch. 4: Legislative Authority in the Anglican CommunionRichard Deadman Ch. 5 The Theology of Canon Law: A Catholic Perspective on the FundamentalsLuke Beckett OSBCh. 6 Conscience and Natural Law:A Calvinist PerspectivePaul Goodliff Part Three:Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Church, State and State Law Ch. 7 Natural Law and Human Law: The Reformation Legacy-an Ecumenical ApproachStephen Coleman and Norman DoeCh. 8 Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Church-State RelationsHelen CostiganePart Four: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Particular Areas of Law Ch. 9 Marriage Lawand Education LawRussell SandbergCh. 10 Equity and ConscienceRichard HedlundCh. 11 The Reformation and Human RightsDavid McIlroyCh. 12 The Reformation and the Birth of Criminal LawMathias SchmoeckelCh. 13 The Reformation and Its Impact on the Law of Charites and Social WelfareJohn Duddington
Summary
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. Five hundred 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.
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