| Church Law in Modernity: Toward a Theory of Canon Law Between Nature and Culture Contributor(s): Hahn, Judith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108483259 ISBN-13: 9781108483254 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Jurisprudence - Religion | Christian Church - Canon & Ecclesiastical Law |
| Dewey: 262.9 |
| LCCN: 2018046405 |
| Series: Law and Christianity |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 9.2" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 282 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Natural law has long been considered the traditional source of Roman Catholic canon law. However, new scholarship is critical of this approach as it portrays the Catholic Church as static, ahistorical, and insensitive to cultural change. In its attempt to stem the massive loss of effectiveness being experienced by canon law, the church has to reconsider its theory of legal foundation, especially its natural law theory. Church Law in Modernity analyses the criticism levelled at the church and puts forward solutions for reconciling church law with modernity by revealing the historical and cultural authenticity of all law, and revising the processes of law making. In a modern church, there is no way of thinking of the law without the participation of the faithful in legislation. Judith Hahn therefore proposes a reformed legislative process for the church in the hope of reconciling the natural law origins of church law with a new, modern theology. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hahn, Judith: - Judith Hahn is a Catholic theologian and Professor of Canon Law at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany. In 2015 and 2016, she was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center 'Law as Culture', Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, and she has published extensively on legal theory, law and religion, and Church and State. |