Open AccessThe Early Church’s Position on Law and the State.
Author(s) -
Matija Stojanović
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vesnik pravne istorije
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2738-0963
pISSN - 2738-0955
DOI - 10.51204/hlh_21102a
Subject(s) - new testament , roman empire , law , state (computer science) , early christianity , faith , order (exchange) , position (finance) , history , philosophy , classics , empire , sociology , political science , theology , computer science , finance , algorithm , economics
This article will try to uncover the stance which the early Christian Church held on the legal system of the Roman Empire, in an attempt to reconstruct a stance which could apply to legal systems in general. The sources which we drew upon while writing this paper were primarily those from the New Testament, beginning with the Four Gospels and continuing with the Acts of the Apostoles and the Epistoles, and, secondarily, the works of the Holy Fathers and different Martyrologies through which we reconstructed the manner in which the Christian faith was demonstrated during the ages of persecutions. The article tries to highlight a common stance which can be identified in all these sources and goes on to elaborate how it relates to legal order in general.