Law and Theology in the Western Legal Tradition
The term ‘law’ does not admit of easy or universal definition. In its broadest sense, law consists of all the written and unwritten norms that govern human conduct – moral commandments, state statutes, church canons, family rules, commercial habits, communal customs, and others. It includes the proc...
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
2022-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.saet.ac.uk/Christianity/LawandTheologyintheWesternLegalTradition |