Canon Law

Name: Canon Law
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ISBN: 9780826413918

By: Libero Gerosa

Bloomsbury Academic / 2002 / Paperback

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One of the main demands of Vatican II Council with respect to Canon Law was to always focus on the mystery of the Church. This clear and distinct position led to a renewal of the methodology applied to the discipline of Canon Law in almost all post-conciliar schools. The canonistic demand, however, similarly to change the didactic tools, the teaching material, in this new context has proved to be less significant. Knowing the importance and the urgency of this initiative has been a strong source of motivation to the author.
The leading idea behind this initiative is the conviction that the formal principles of Canon Law, both as the inner structure of the Church community as well as a proper scientific method, are the three fundamental elements of the constitution of the Church: the Word, the Sacrament, and Charism.

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Title: Canon Law
By: Libero Gerosa
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 372
Vendor: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 2002

Dimensions: 9 X 6 X 1/2 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 2 ounces
ISBN: 0826413919
ISBN-13: 9780826413918
Stock No: WW13919

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This volume offers a comprehensive and consistently theological interpretation of Canon Law such as has scarcely been attempted by any of the other manuals in use. It is inspired by the key conciliar notion of communio ecclesiarum, implying a structural and human reality in which is embodied a theological dimension, namely, the grace conceded by means of word and sacrament and guaranteed by apostolic succession, for which Canon Law is founded, not only anthropologically and sociologically, but also theologically. The whole of Canon Law, in this perspective, conforms to and clarifies the original elements of the church: word, sacrament, apostolic succession, and charism. It also agrees with Hans Urs von Balthasar's notion that Canon Law has the function of guaranteeing that the church as communio is and continues to be a community in love: in that love whose origin is Jesus Christ and which is given to humanity by the Holy Spirit.