Sir Edward Coke gets it wrong?: A brief history od consecration

• Autores: Kenyon Homfray
• Localización: Ecclesiastical law journal, ISSN 0956-618X, Vol. 11, Nº. 1, 2009, págs. 36-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In many modern works of ecclesiastical law, the Institutes of Sir Edward Coke are given as the authority for the consecration of buildings as places of public worship. For authority Coke relies on scriptural precedent. This paper suggests that, in fact, the origin of consecration as a legal precedent lies in pre-Christian Roman law.