Legal flexibility and the mission of the church
Subtitle: dispensation and economy in ecclesiastical law
By: Will Adam
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781409420552; 9781409420569
Subjects: Orthodox Eastern Church; Dispensations (Canon law); Anglican Communion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and definition of terms; title: The development of dispensation and economy in the early church; title: The development of dispensation in the West; title: Economy in the East since 1054; title: Dispensation in the contemporary Roman Catholic Church; title: Legal flexibility in English law; title: Dispensation in the Church of England; title: Testing flexibility : the ritual controversy in the nineteenth-century Church of England; title: Testing flexibility : the proposed revision of the Book of common prayer 1927-8; title: Testing flexibility : the use of economy in Anglican-Orthodox relations; title: Ecumenism and economy : legal flexibility and inter-church relations; title: Dispensation, economy and legal theory; title: Conclusion.