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The sexual abuse of children and teens by rogue priests in the U.S.
Catholic Church is a heinous crime, and those who pray for a
religious community as its ministers, priests and rabbis should
never tolerate those who prey on that community. The legal disputes
of recent years have produced many scandalous headlines and fuelled
public discussion about the sexual abuse crisis within the clergy,
a crisis that has cost the U.S. Catholic Church over $3 billion. In
The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses, two eminent
experts, James O'Reilly and Margaret Chalmers, draw on the lessons
of recent years to discern the interplay between civil damages law
and global church-based canon law. In some countries civil and
canon law, although autonomous systems of law, both form part of
the church's legal duties. In the United States, freedom of
religion issues have complicated how the state adjudicates both
cases of abuse and who can be held responsible for clerical
oversight. This book examines questions of civil and criminal
liability, issues of respondeat superior and oversight, issues with
statutes of limitations and dealing with allegations that occurred
decades ago, and how the Church's internal judicial processes
interact or clash with the civil pursuit of these cases.
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Paul Gilk; Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge
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This book explains and illustrates a variety of semiotic issues in
the study of biblical law. Commencing with a review of relevant
literature in linguistics, philosophy, semiotics and psychology, it
examines biblical law in terms of its users, its medium and its
message. It criticizes our use of the notion of 'literal meaning',
at the level of both words and sentences, preferring to see meaning
constructed by the narrative images that the language evokes. These
images may come from either social experience or cultural
narratives. Speech performance is important, both in the
negotiation of the law and the narratives of its communication.
Non-linguistic semiotic phenomena, utilizing other senses and
involving such notions as space and time, also need to be taken
into account. For the early biblical period, at least, conceptions
of law based upon modern models need to be replaced by the notion
of 'wisdom-laws'. Amongst the issues addressed in the course of the
argument are the structure of the Decalogue, the role in the law of
(Greenberg's) 'postulates', 'covenant renewal' and 'talionic
punishment'.>
Focusing on writers who approach the Bible as a source that is
both instructive and dangerous, "Subverting Scriptures" seeks to
provide an academic analysis of cultural biblical saturation at a
time when measured voices are necessary to counterbalance
politically motivated religious rhetoric. Using as its point of
departure the current political landscape - where the Bible is
drawn on freely and unabashedly without critical reflection to
legitimate and justify all manner of agendas - the contributors in
this collection engage the Bible in new, imaginative, and critical
ways, in the hopes of creating a new space for dialogue.
The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon
of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective,
examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules
and habits that played a role in the process that eventually
resulted in one specific candidate becoming the new bishop, and not
another. The importance of episcopal elections hardly needs
stating: With the bishop emerging as one of the key figures of late
antique society, his election was a defining moment for the local
community, and an occasion when local, ecclesiastical, and secular
tensions were played out. Building on the state of the art
regarding late antique bishops and episcopal election, this volume
of collected studies by leading scholars offers fresh perspectives
by focussing on specific case-studies and opening up new
approaches. Covering much of the Later Roman Empire between 250-600
AD, the contributions will be of interest to scholars interested in
Late Antique Christianity across disciplines as diverse as
patristics, ancient history, canon law and oriental studies.
Melodie H. EICHBAUER is Professor of Medieval History at Florida
Gulf Coast University, USA. She is the editor of A Cultural History
of Genocide, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages (2021) and The Use of Canon
Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000-1250 (2018) with Danica
Summerlin and other volumes. Her research focuses on the
dissemination of legal knowledge; the interpretation of law; and
the ways in which social, political, and intellectual developments
and trends shaped both between c.1000 and c.1500 James A BRUNDAGE
(1929-2021) was Professor Emeritus of history and, prior to his
retirement, Ahmanson-Murphy chair of medieval European history at
the University of Kansas, USA. His publications included The
Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and
Courts (2008), Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (1996) edited with
Vern L. Bullough, and Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval
Europe (1987).
Melodie H. EICHBAUER is Professor of Medieval History at Florida
Gulf Coast University, USA. She is the editor of A Cultural History
of Genocide, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages (2021) and The Use of Canon
Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000-1250 (2018) with Danica
Summerlin and other volumes. Her research focuses on the
dissemination of legal knowledge; the interpretation of law; and
the ways in which social, political, and intellectual developments
and trends shaped both between c.1000 and c.1500 James A BRUNDAGE
(1929-2021) was Professor Emeritus of history and, prior to his
retirement, Ahmanson-Murphy chair of medieval European history at
the University of Kansas, USA. His publications included The
Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and
Courts (2008), Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (1996) edited with
Vern L. Bullough, and Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval
Europe (1987).
This work explores the role of canon law in the ecclesiastical reform movement of the eleventh century, commonly known as the Gregorian Reform. Focusing on the Collectio canonum of Bishop Anselm of Lucca, it explores how the reformers came to value and employ law as as means of achieving desired ends in a time of social upheaval and revolution.
Part 1 of the latest volume in "The Jewish Law Annual" comprises a
symposium on parent and child, examining such issues as parental
authority and the contrast between the Bible and Rabbinic law. Part
2 covers current legal thought on religious freedom in the United
States as well as contemporary developments in Jewish laws in
Israel. Part 3 is a major survey of recently published titles,
organized according to major legal categories.
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