Gaudium et Spes: Between Pastoral Character and Prescriptive Obligatoriety
Gaudium et Spes: Between Pastoral Character and Prescriptive Obligatoriety
Author(s): Stanislav PřibylSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Theology and Religion, Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Council; constitution; the Church; canonical law; marriage; concordate
Summary/Abstract: In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, Pope Saint John Paul II states that the Code is especially inspired by the Second Vatican Council constitution, that is, the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium and the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes. The second constitution does not have to be a source of inspiration to the formulation of legal norms. However, we can find there some support for future canonical regulations. This concerns, in particular, the extension of the idea of marriage which inspired the Code that defines, anew, the dissolution of marriage and clarifies the relations between the state and the Church on the basis of which the concordate law is developed in the post-Second Vatican Council times.
Journal: Philosophy and Canon Law
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 129-140
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English