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Miejsce i rola słuszności w prawie k ościelnym
The place and role of equity in ecclesiastical law

Author(s): Mariusz Auguścik
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Canon Law / Church Law, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Łodzi
Keywords: canonical equity; aequitas canonica; ecclesiastical law;

Summary/Abstract: The topic of article is equity, its role and place in church law. This is philosophical and ethical category which infiltrate with the whole system of ecclesiastical law. Content of Revelation and anthropological and axiological implications focus in the ecclesiastical law. The law in not the final and closed reality. It makes canon law a tool of evangelization. When subject of the law is not able to obey the rule, keeping equity makes possibility finding the most optimal, individual solution. Although the worshiper does not obey the rule, nevertheless follows the justice and actualizes vocation to being saved in Christ.

  • Issue Year: 23/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 7-26
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish