TY - JOUR
TI - The Relationship between Civil and Canon Law in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition
AU - Druwé, Wouter
TI - The Relationship between Civil and Canon Law in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition
AB - Theodore Balsamon, a 12th-century Constantinopolitan canonist, famously said: “Civil law punishes, canon law heals”. This paper tries to understand that statement by studying the relationship between civil law and canon law in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. From the 4th century onwards, the Roman imperial administration gave exequaturs to episcopal judicial decisions. In his novellae, Emperor Justinian considered the canons of the ecumenical councils as nomoi, which also implied that he could change canons by enacting imperial legislation. As of the 6th century, canon and imperial laws were published together in so-called nomokanones. At the end of the 9th century, Patriarch Photios formulated – for the first and last time in Byzantine legal history – the division of competences between Emperor and Patriarch. This paper argues that, though civil and canon law were separate fields with their own specific aims, the executability of their sentences remained crucially different.
VL - Tom 8 (2015)
IS - Tom 8, Zeszyt 4
PY - 2016
SN - 2084-4115
C1 - 2084-4131
SP - 343
EP - 356
DO - 10.4467/20844131KS.15.020.4880
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/kshpp/artykul/the-relationship-between-civil-and-canon-law-in-the-eastern-orthodox-tradition
KW - historia prawa
KW - prawo cywilne
KW - prawo kanoniczne
KW - prawo kościelne
KW - Bizancjum
KW - Wschodnie Cesarstwo Rzymskie
KW - nomokanon
KW - kanony
KW - patriarchat Konstantynopola
KW - Teodor Balsamon
KW - relacje państwo–Kościół
KW - sąd kościelny
KW - edykt tesalonicki
KW - kodyfikacja Justyniana
KW - Teodozjusz Wielki
KW - Leon VI Mądry
KW - Bazyli I