Law, Liberty and Church: Authority and Justice in the Major Churches in England Ebook (miebook.shop)

Law, Liberty and Church: Authority and Justice in the Major Churches in EnglandLaw, Liberty and Church examines the presuppositions that underlie authority in the five largest Churches in England – the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and the Baptist Union. Examining what has influenced their development, and how the patterns of authority that exist today have evolved, Gordon Arthur explores the contributions of Scripture, Roman Legal Theory, and Greek Philosophy.This book shows how the influence of Roman legal theory has caused inflexibility, and at times authoritarianism in the Roman Catholic Church ISBN: 9780754654377, 0754654370