Author: Chodorow, Stanley
Title: Christian Political Theory and Church Politics in the Mid-twelfth Century : The Ecclesiology of Gratian's Decretum
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1972. orig. cloth. 24x15cm, xii,300 pp. In a soiled and torn dustwrapper. Series: Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, U.C.L.A. 5.. ISBN: 0520018508. Some wear. Some lightly-pencilled underlinings to text. VG. ¶ Contents: I. Introduction -- II. Gratian and church politics -- Reforming the reform Papacy -- The policy positions of the two parties -- Gratian and the reform party -- III. The church as a juridical community -- The foundation of the church -- Membership in the church according to Gratian’ s contemporaries -- Membership in the church according to Gratian - - IV. Human authority and the hierarchy of law -- Gratian’s argument in the in the Tractatus de Legibus -- V. Human authority and the divine law -- The theory of obedience -- The sacrament of penitence -- VI. Human authority and its own law: the theory of legislative power -- The Tractatus de Legibus -- Causa -- The historical importance of the theory of legislative power -- VII. Sacerdotal power and the hierarchy of the church -- The problem of sacerdotal power -- Sacerdotal power according to the schools of Laon, Saint Victor, and Peter Abelard -- Sacerdotal power according to Gratian -- The Ordo Episcopalis and the position of the pope - - VIII. The source of legitimate authority in the church -- The election: choice of God or the community? -- The ordination: the priest’s reception of power and authority -- The theory of the electorate: its historical and constitutional importance -- IX. The division of governmental responsibilities between Regnum and Sacerdotium: the ecclesiastical community and other communities -- The division of judicial and legislative power -- The use of force by the church -- X. Conclusions -- The decretum in the twelfth century -- The place of the decretum in

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