From law to paradise: Confessional catholicism and legal scholarship
- This paper is a prolegomenon to further study of the intensified relationship between law and moral theology in early modern times. In a period characterized by a growing anxiety for the salvation of the soul (»Confessional Catholicism«), a vast literature for confessors, which became increasingly juridical in nature, saw the light between roughly 1550 and 1650. By focussing on some of the most important Jesuit canonists and moral theologians, this article first seeks to explain why jurisprudence became regarded as an indispensable tool to solve moral problems. While Romano-canon law showed its merits as an instrument of precision to come to grips with concrete qualms of conscience, with the passing of time it also became studied for its own sake. The second part of this paper, therefore, illustrates how the legal tradition, particularly with regard to the law of obligations, was reshaped in the treatises of the moral theologians.
| Author: | Wim DecockORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-527766 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.12946/rg18/012-034 |
| ISSN: | 2195-9617 |
| ISSN: | 1619-4993 |
| Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Rechtsgeschichte = Legal History |
| Publisher: | Klostermann |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt, M. |
| Contributor(s): | Thomas Duve |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2011 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/01/22 |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Page Number: | 25 |
| First Page: | 12 |
| Last Page: | 34 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 459338072 |
| Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / LOEWE-Schwerpunkt Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |
