Значај Законоправила Светог Саве
The Significance of Saint Sava’s Zakonopravilo

Summary/Abstract: Saint Sava’s Zakonopravilo is a collection of secular and ecclesial laws that gave Serbian people a specific Christian view of Church, state, and society. Saint Sava has understood the importance of the law for organization of Church and people, because Church does not signify exclusively the communion of human beings with God, but also the communion of human beings among themselves. Saint Sava insisted that all who want to live in accordance with Zakonopravilo should cleanse themselves from vanity, hatred, and evil by the means of prayer and repentance. A nation possesses true values only if it lives a Christian life and if it incorporates Christian values in its history. Zakonopravilo does not contain legal collections that insist on universal authority of both Byzantine Emperor and Ecumenical Patriarch. As the matter of fact, Zakonopravilo is a result of original codification of Roman-Byzantine law. Goal of Church canons is to lead the members of the Church on the way of deification and salvation, while ecclesial punishments have pedagogical goals, and that is repentance and reintegration of a believer back into the Church life. Thanks to the Zakonopravilo, Roman-Byzantine law has become an important part of the life of people. The state was very early understood as a communion of all the faithful, as a mystical body ruled by the King and Archbishop. In the Nemanjić domain the symphony of Church and state was realized more fully than in Byzantium, for there was no caesaropapism; the domains of ruler and Church authority were clearly separated.

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