A comparative account of Protestant and Catholic approaches to church law: Law in the life of the visible church

Doe, Norman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1464-3130 2024. A comparative account of Protestant and Catholic approaches to church law: Law in the life of the visible church. Duddington, John, ed. The Legal Legacy of the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law, London: Routledge, pp. 3-22. (10.4324/9780429264115-2)

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Abstract

A comparative account of Catholic and Protestant church laws reveals profound similarities between their basic elements. These similarities exist in relation to a wide range of ecclesial matters fundamental to the life of the church. These similarities have enabled both Catholics and Protestants to contribute imaginatively to the work of the ecumenical panel which issued its Statement of Principles of Christian Law in 2016. These principles reflect the laws of the Latin Church and the Protestant churches as they exist across the traditions in a multiplicity of legal instruments—from codes of canons through constitutions to books of church order. Whilst one legacy of the Reformation may indeed be institutional ecclesial separation, the idea of juridical ecumenism is a rich resource to identify what Catholics and Protestants share today.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780367209087
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2025 15:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/183150

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