From Law to Paradise: Confessional Catholicism and Legal Scholarship

This paper is a prolegomenon to further study of the intensified relationship between law and moral theology in early modern times. In a period characterized by a growing anxiety for the salvation of the soul (»Confessional Catholicism«), a vast literature for confessors, which became increasingly j...

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Main Author: Wim Decock
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory 2011-01-01
Series:Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History
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Online Access:http://data.rg.mpg.de/rechtsgeschichte/rg18_012decock.pdf