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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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Ecclesiastical sanctuary in thirteenth‐century Welsh law
The Journal of Legal History, 1984(1984). Ecclesiastical sanctuary in thirteenth‐century Welsh law. The Journal of Legal History: Vol. 5, Custom, Courts and Counsel, pp. 1-13.
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Ecclesiastical Law and the Law of God in Scripture
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 1998The Ecclesiastical Law Society is rightly promoting afresh the study of ecclesiastical law. In the case of the Church of England, the sources of ecclesiastical law are three-fold: case-law, statutes (and Measures made thereunder) and the Canons of the Church of England.
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Reflections on the Beginnings of Ecclesiastical Law
1969The problem signaled by the title is introduced by the description of the controversy over the organization of the Early Church between Adolf von Harnack and Rudolf Sohm in the early 20th century—organic development vs. regrettable deviation of a free-wheeling spiritual community to a legally constituted societal entity.
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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 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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