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The New Testament, Mosaic Law and Ecclesiastical Law Today
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2005This article explores the New Testament's critique of Old Testament law, a genus of positive law. It looks at the applicability of that critique to modern ecclesiastical law: The article identifies three common misconceptions about the view of the New Testament concerning Old Testament law, and then sets out what the New Testament does say about Old ...
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Hooker: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
1989The great Elizabethan divine Richard Hooker has occupied a prominent place in the intellectual history of the Church of England and sixteenth-century Protestantism but his wider significance has often been neglected. In his introduction to this selection of books from Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Professor McGrade demonstrates clearly the ...
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The Origin and Founding of the Ecclesiastical Law Society
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2000There was an ecclesiastical law shaped hole in the Church of England from the dissolution of Doctors' Commons in 1857 until 1987 when it was filled by the formation of the Ecclesiastical Law Society. In 1947, forty years earlier, the Archbishops' Canon Law Commission had suggested how the hole might be filled.
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Divine Law and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy
2013As the editors state in the introduction, discussions about religion in disputes these days tend to be dominated by the challenge that certain radical interpretations of Islam pose to the liberal “Western” state, a challenge that is eagerly transferred to the whole of Islam by interested circles.
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The Nature and Sources of Ecclesiastical Law
2018This chapter examines the nature and sources of ecclesiastical law, or the law of the Church of England. It begins with a discussion of the purpose of the law of and for the Church of England, which is to regulate the functioning of the Church and its individual members by a combination of commands, prohibitions, and permissions.
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The Educational Work of the Ecclesiastical Law Society
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2016The Ecclesiastical Law Society (ELS) is a charity whose object is ‘to promote education in ecclesiastical law for the benefit of the public, including in particular the clergy and laity of the Church of England’. The ELS Committee has recently begun a review of this part of the society's work and this piece is a part of that review.
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Divine law divided: Francisco de Vitoria on civil and ecclesiastical powers
Intellectual History Review, 2021exaly