Authors: Libero Gerosa
ISBN-13: 9780826413901, ISBN-10: 0826413900
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: May 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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 and inspiring 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.
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Abbreviations | 3 | |
Ch. 1 | The theological foundation of Canon law | 5 |
1 | The experience of law in the ecclesial communion | 5 |
2 | Principal attempts at a theological foundation for Canon Law | 11 |
3 | Systematic developments of the theological foundations of Canon Law in the light of the Vatican Council II | 27 |
Ch. 2 | Sources, methods and instruments of Canon Law | 49 |
1 | Sources and formation of Canon Law | 49 |
2 | The study of Canon Law as science | 60 |
3 | Typical particularities and instruments in the law of the Church | 74 |
Ch. 3 | The juridical elements of the proclamation of the word | 83 |
1 | Proclamation and Magisterium | 83 |
2 | Mission, education and ecumenism | 93 |
3 | The juridical guardianship of the ecclesial communion | 96 |
Ch. 4 | The law of the Sacraments | 109 |
1 | The concept of Sacrament in Canon Law | 109 |
2 | The Eucharist | 115 |
3 | Baptism | 135 |
4 | Confirmation | 145 |
5 | Penance | 152 |
6 | The anointing of the sick | 167 |
7 | Holy Orders | 175 |
8 | Marriage | 189 |
Ch. 5 | Charisms and forms of association of the faithful | 213 |
1 | Theological foundations and criteria for distinction | 213 |
2 | The different forms of ecclesial associations of a prevalently charismatic nature | 219 |
Ch. 6 | Institutional organs of the church | 229 |
1 | Some fundamental theological-juridical notions | 229 |
2 | The institutional organs, and in particular of governance, in the Ecclesiae et Ecclesiarum communion | 235 |
3 | Brief conclusive considerations | 257 |
Index of Biblical References | 259 | |
Index of References to the CIC 1917 | 260 | |
Index of the Documents of the Vatican Council II | 261 | |
Index of references to the CIC of 1983 | 264 | |
Index of references to the CCEO | 273 |