Description: This is the fourth volume of the Current Legal Issues series. Here, contributors discuss a host of issues related to the interaction of religious practice and law. Both common and civil law jurisdictions are represented, as well as a variety of cultural and religious perspectives.
Description: This work explores the role of canon law in the ecclesiastical reform movement of the eleventh century, commonly known as the Gregorian Reform. Focusing on the Collectio canonum of Bishop Anselm of Lucca, it explores how the reformers came to value and employ law as a means of achieving desired ends in a time of social upheaval and revolution.
Description: This study of the ten commandments shows Christians the proper way in which to view the law given on Mt. Sinai. "It is only when His love indwells and constrains our hearts that the law is fulfilled."
Description: This book resulted from a meeting held on Church and State in Spring of this year. The colloquium focused on the legal position of churches, the autonomy of churches in modern society and recent tendencies in jurisprudence. It was organised by the Faculty of Canon Law of the Catholic University Leuven in collaboration with the Faculty of Theology of the University of Stellenbosch. Both the conference and the book have two objectives. The first looks at South African history on Church and State relationships and its current situation under the new Constitution. The second seeks to search for models leading to a new equilibrium between Church and State in South Africa. Examples offered by other countries are examined as a point of reference or a possible source of inspiration. International scholars and academics, Church Minister, as well as leading politicians, offer their viewpoints and arguments.
