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Gaetano Lo Castro
The rejection of the law by the Church (anti jurisprudence current) on the part of various doctrinaire currents during the last thousand years has been brought about by manyfold factors and has been supported by a variety of considerations. Some of these considerations concerned the Church more than the law. These considerations regarded ecclesiastical authority, the Church's exercise of power. The considerations were based on a negative vision of law because of its own coactivity.
But the conception of law (as a collection of normative prescriptions coming from the powers that be) is to be found in institutions that have carried them into the Church though with with precise theological motives intending to make law applicable to character of the Church community.
Marginal attention has been given on a doctrinal basis to the necessary relationship between law and justice - although this necessary relationship depends essentially on its doctrinal basis.
This study means to develop the above aspect in order to demonstrate how law and justice find their highest justification in God's designs for humankind and the Church. In such designs, one must look for the solutios of the problems they pose while being fully aware of the difficulties that accompany these inquiries as God is a never entirely fathomable mistery.
But in rejecting law (to which justice is necessarily linked) with the idea of freeing oneself from the problem's complexity, would be a serious mistake bringing negative effects to society and mankind which the law is meant to serve.
1. Premessa. - 2. Martin Lutero, ovvero dell'avversione per la coattività del diritto. - 3. Rudolf Sohm, ovvero dell'amore che nella Chiesa prende il post del diritto. - 4. Eugenio Corecco, o della vincolattività giuridica della Parola divina. - 5. Il diritto come insieme di atti imperativi e vincolanti: della concezione istituzionale del diritto nelle società secolari. - 6. Il diritto in funzione della giustizia. - 7. Conoscenza problematica del diritto e della giustizia. - 8. Dio, principio e fondamento del diritto nella Chiesa. - 9. Per una ricostruzione antropologica e teologica dell'origine dell'esperienza giuridica della Chiesa. - 10. Continuità ed innovazione nel messaggio di Gesù. - 11. L' orizzonte giuridico dei primi cristiani. Continuità e discontinuità con il mondo ebraico. - 12. La prima cristianità, san Paolo e la Legge. Le moticazioni dell'agire cristiano: la salvezza viene da Cristo, non dalla Legge. La fede e la Legge. La fede e le opere. - 13. Conclusione
