Das Gewissen in den Rechtslehren der protestantischen und katholischen Reformationen / The Conscience in the Legal Teachings of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations

edited by Michael Germann and Wim Decock

Book cover: Das Gewissen in den Rechtslehren der protestantischen und katholischen Reformationen / The Conscience in the Legal Teachings of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations

Extent: 384 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Law, Religious Studies

Series: Leucorea-Studien zur Geschichte der Reformation und der Lutherischen Orthodoxie

Series volume number: 29

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(February 2017)

ISBN: 9783374045488

6.06 x 9.06 inches

Price: $86.00

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The essays joined in this volume investigate the role of the religious reform movements since the 16th century in the transformation of the Western legal tradition, focussing on a particular topic: how Jurisprudence had to deal with the reference to conscience, virulent for all confessional positions. Research on the teachings of Lutheran, Calvinist, and Roman Catholic theologians and jurists from the 16th up to the early 18th century, most often examined separately, is brought together in a comparative perspective. The essays comprise studies on legal concepts of conscience and on their implementation in the teachings in Public Law and in Canon or Ecclesiastical Law from the perspectives of theology, law, and philosophy.

  • Edited by Wim Decock
  • Edited by Michael Germann