Moore's Introduction to English Canon Law: Fourth Edition
Ebook
This fourth revised edition brings an invaluable text thoroughly up to date in light of recent and forthcoming changes to ecclesiastical law.
Theological students and clergy need to know the canon law in which much of their theology and parish work is embedded. Practising lawyers will find here information on the immediate problems arising in ecclesiastical cases as well as the background of ecclesiastical law in which they are set.
This book deals with the basic principles on which canon law is built and with the complications which arise by reason of the Establishment, and gives in outline the constitution of the Church of England, and the law relating to its worship, sacraments, property, and persons.
Invaluable to clergy, lawyers and students, this is a fully revised edition of a classic introductory text on ecclesiastical and canon law.
A classic text in the field, recommended to students, clergy and legal practitioners
A revised and updated edition: relevant to a new generation of readers
Foreword
Table of Statutes
Table of Measures
Table of Canons
Table of Cases
I. Introduction
II. The Constitution: (I) The Establishment
III. The Constitution: (II) Ecclesiastical
IV. The Parish
V. Non-Parochial Units
1. Cathedrals
2. Royal Peculiars
3. Other Peculiars
4. College Chapels
5. Chapels of Institutions and the Armed Forces
6. Guild Churches
7. Private Chapels
8. Mission Initiatives
VI. Doctrine
VII Worship
VIII. Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Communion
IX. Holy Matrimony
X. The Other Offices and Penance
1. Morning and Evening prayer
2. Visitation and Communion of the Sick
3. The Churching of Women
4. Burial of the Dead
5. Penance
XI Church Property
XII Ceremonial, Furnishings, and Decorations
XIII Ecclesiastical Persons
XIV Ecclesiastical Courts and Legal Proceedings
1. General
2. The Faculty Jurisdiction
3. Criminal Jurisdiction
XV Dispensation
XVI Relations Between the CofE and Other Churches
Index
This new edition will teach a new generation that ecclesiastical law is itself an expression of the Gospel and of Christian Theology. Here we see how canon law is designed to help us fulfil our vocation to be a community which is a life-giving expression of God's grace. Law and grace are two sides of the same coin: without grace - no law; without law - no grace. Timothy Briden, editor of this fourth edition, is like a householder bringing forth treasures both old and new. In its pages Garth Moore, famed in his day for the guidance that the clergy should never wear brown shoes, exerts his continuing influence upon the character, ethos and practical outworking of English Ecclesiastical Law.
Garth Moore performed an invaluable service last century in sustaining canonical learning in Anglicanism. Timothy Briden has ensured the continuity of this service this century in an excellent new edition of Moore. Building on Moore's classic, the book presents recent developments in the field in a systematic, comprehensive, and clear way which is wholly at one with the spirit of the original.
- Title: Moore's Introduction to English Canon Law: Fourth Edition
- Author: Timothy Briden
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781441118158, 9781441168689, 1441168680, 1441118152
- Resource ID: LLS:9781441118158
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-15T04:38:30Z
Timothy J. Briden is a Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury, Chancellor of the Diocese of Bath and Wells and Chancellor of the Diocese of Truro. He is a member of the Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod and Chairman of the Ecclesiastical Judges Association.