Particular interest attaches to the canons that express disapproval of certain customs of the Western Church and of the Armenian Church. Was this an attempt to impose Byzantine hegemony, or simply a revulsion at customs that seemed wrong?

Tracing the course of the change in the fortunes of the English cathedrals and in the lives of interesting and significant Canons who were in office, this work provides readers with an introduction to two centuries of Church history with ...

This book is part of a series which moves the canon debate of the 1980s forward into a new multidisciplinary and cross-cultural phase by investigating problems of canon formation across the whole humanistic field.

This book takes the debate about the canon as a crucial test case for how competing perspectives in literary theory approach the subject of values.

A complete and updated commentary on the Code of Canon Law prepared by the leading canonists of North America and Europe.

This book focuses on the laws of the Church regarding the introduction, admissibility, examination, exclusion, and evaluation of proofs, with particular reference to ecclesiastical penal cases.

In effect, this work successfully unites both the theology and the historical development of the canon, ultimately serving as a practical defense for the authority of the New Testament books.