Church Laws and Ecumenism
Church Laws and Ecumenism Written by experts from within their communities, this book compares the legal regimes of Christian churches as systems of religious law.The ecumenical movement, with its…
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Church Laws and Ecumenism
Written by experts from within their communities, this book compares the legal regimes of Christian churches as systems of religious law.The ecumenical movement, with its historical theological focus, has failed to date to address the role of church law in shaping relations between churches and fostering greater mutual understanding between them. This book seeks to correct this ecumenical church law deficit. In turn, theologians and jurists from the different traditions have not hitherto worked together on a fully ecumenical appreciation of the potential value of church laws to help, and sometimes to hinder, the achievement of greater Christian unity.
It takes account of the recent formulation by an ecumenical panel of a Statement of Principles of Christian Law, which has been welcomed by Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the