Concept

Canon law

Overview

ordinances and regulations made by Church leadership for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Canon law

• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• Thomas Aquinas
• Anselm of Canterbury
• Hippolytus of Rome
• Johannes Althusius
• Peter Paul Borg
• John Formosa

Related ideas

• Eastern Orthodox Church
• Greek language
• Holy See
• Hebrew language
• Mount Athos
• Jurisprudence
• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Western world
• Natural law
• Lutheranism
• Pope John Paul II
• University of Cambridge
• Revelation
• Roman law
• Second Vatican Council
• Summa Theologica
• Aristotelianism
• University of Oxford
• Legal system
• Common law
• Church of England
• Catholic Church
• Court
• Arabic

Opposing perspectives

• Common law

Place in the tradition

Part of Italian philosophy.

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