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Marriage as the Arena of Salvation : An Ecclesiological Study of the Marital Regulation in the Canons of the Council in Trullo

Heith-Stade, David LU (2011)
Abstract
Despite the importance of canon law in the life of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, there has not been a study of the ecclesiology of the canons regulating marriage. Marriage is an object of right regulated both by civil law and the canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Marriage as an object of right is at the intersection of two legal orders - the ecclesial and the civil. The canonical regulation of marriage as an object of right confronts us with a twofold ecclesiological problem: (a) how does the Church perceive the civil legal order in relation to its own legal order; and, (b) how is the self-understanding of the Church, i.e. its ecclesiology, reflected in its canon law? Thus, the ecclesiological problem examined in this study is the... (More)
Despite the importance of canon law in the life of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, there has not been a study of the ecclesiology of the canons regulating marriage. Marriage is an object of right regulated both by civil law and the canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Marriage as an object of right is at the intersection of two legal orders - the ecclesial and the civil. The canonical regulation of marriage as an object of right confronts us with a twofold ecclesiological problem: (a) how does the Church perceive the civil legal order in relation to its own legal order; and, (b) how is the self-understanding of the Church, i.e. its ecclesiology, reflected in its canon law? Thus, the ecclesiological problem examined in this study is the question of how the ecclesial polity (politeuma), as the Eucharistic ekklēsia of the people (laos) of the new covenant, actualizes itself as taxis within a concrete society. The hypothesis is that the aim of the ecclesial polity is covenant holiness, and, furthermore, that the aim of the canonical taxis is to establish and maintain covenant holiness within the concrete socio-historical setting of the ecclesial polity. By actualization, this means the diachronic institutional process whereby the ecclesial polity subsists in a society as an institution determined by its finality and institutional potentiality. (Less)
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Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Canon Law, Ecclesiastical Law, Byzantium, Byzantine, Byzantine Law, Roman Law, Marriage, Sacrament, Spirituality, Ecclesiology, Theology
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Popular Science
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206 pages
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Orthodox Research Institute Press
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978-1-933275-55-0
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English
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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (015017000)
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  author       = {{Heith-Stade, David}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-933275-55-0}},
  keywords     = {{Orthodox Church; Eastern Orthodoxy; Canon Law; Ecclesiastical Law; Byzantium; Byzantine; Byzantine Law; Roman Law; Marriage; Sacrament; Spirituality; Ecclesiology; Theology}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Orthodox Research Institute Press}},
  title        = {{Marriage as the Arena of Salvation : An Ecclesiological Study of the Marital Regulation in the Canons of the Council in Trullo}},
  year         = {{2011}},
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