THE MANIFESTO OF ANCIENT CHURCH LAW AND THE CANONIZATION PROCESS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
THE MANIFESTO OF ANCIENT CHURCH LAW AND THE CANONIZATION PROCESS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Summary/Abstract: Canon law as the regulatory instrument of the established church, which turned the latter into an institutional body, manifested itself at the same time by becoming a bridge between the state (within the meaning then current) and religious communities (the society within the meaning then current), where the representatives of these two dimensions – both those of the spiritual dimension and those of the secular one, came to have as if compulsorily, such legal relations between themselves; thus the administrative church became thoroughly comparable to modern state institutions within their material and existential meaning or, in other words, existed in a state of self-reproduction and legal development and within the framework of self-justification. This aim, according to the political and dogmatic scheme then existing, resulted in the creation of a body of administrative law as the first legal manifestation of this kind known in Western Europe. At the same time, this body was a common denominator or a recipe for ensuring strong management by combining mundane things with spiritual ones without discriminating between them and by replacing intangible, incomprehensible things with Christian values but in particular with a discipline based on strict regulations.

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