Law and religion : : the legal teachings of the protestant and Catholic reformations / / edited by Wim Decock [and three others].

• Superior document: Refo500 Academic Studies ; Volume 20
• TeilnehmendeR: Decock, Wim,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: German
• Series: Refo500 academic studies ; Volume 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Wim Decock collects contributions by internationally renowned experts in law, history and religion on the impact of the Reformations on law, jurisprudence and moral theology. The overall impression conveyed by the essays is that on the level of substantive doctrine (the legal teachings) there seems to be more continuity between Protestant and Catholic, or, for that matter, between medieval and early modern jurisprudence and theology than usually expected. As it is illustrated with regards to topics ranging from just war doctrine over business ethics to marriage law, at the very least there app

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Wim Decock: Introduction; Jordan J. Ballor: 1. A Society of Mutual Aid Natural Law and Subsidiarity in Early Modern Reformed Perspective; Wim Decock: 2. The Catholic Spirit of Capitalism? Contrasting Views on Profit-Making through Capital Investment in the Age of Reformations; Charles Donahue, Jr.: 3. The Role of the Humanists and the Second Scholastic in the Development of European Marriage Law from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

Michael Germann: 4. Das kanonische Recht in der protestantischen Kirchenrechtslehre an der Universität Halle zu Beginn des 18. JahrhundertsRichard H. Helmholz: 5. Natural Law and Religion Evidence from the Case Law; Mia Korpiola: 6. Lutheran Marriage Law in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Sweden Authorities and Sources of Law; Vincenzo Lavenia: 7. The Catholic Theology of War : Law and Religion in an Eighteenth-Century Text ; Harald Maihold: 8. God's Wrath and Charity Criminal Law in (Counter-)Reforming Discourse of Redemption and Retribution

Todd Rester: 9. Roman Canon Law in Protestant Reformed Theologians as Both Touchstone and FoilMathias Schmoeckel: 10. Das kanonische Zinsverbot und die Konfessionalisierung; Laurent Waelkens: 11. Legal Transplant of Greek Caesaropapism in Early Modern Times; John Witte, Jr.: 12. 'The Law Written on the Heart': Natural Law and Equity in Early Lutheran Thought; Alain Wijffels: 13. Law and Religion in Early-Modern Europe: Some Tentative Conclusions; About the Authors