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Canon Law And The Human Person, John J. Coughlin
Canon Law And The Human Person, John J. Coughlin
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This article explores the unity of law and theology in the 1983 Code of Canon Law. The unity has remained critical since canon law emerged in the ancient Church. From the origins of the primitive Christian communities through the patristic era, the Church manifested a tension between charism and office, spirit and law? The medieval canonists achieved a great synthesis of the reason of law and faith of theology. The unified theory helped to form the basis of the Western legal tradition. The Reformation focus on sola fide (faith alone) tended to sever the unity. With the Enlightenment, reason was …
A Suggestion For The Renewal Of The Canon Law, Robert E. Rodes
A Suggestion For The Renewal Of The Canon Law, Robert E. Rodes
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Among the recommendations adopted by the Canon Law Society of America at its last annual meeting was one for bringing the insights of legal traditions besides the Roman to bear on the canonical system. The following suggestions are derived from the insights of my tradition, the common law tradition. That aspect of the common law tradition that I believe has most to contribute to the development of the canon law is concerned not so much with the particular rules of law as with the basic techniques of legal analysis. The common law tradition of legal analysis, as it has been …