The Church's laws on clerical continence and celibacy have developed over the centuries. The Church continues to consider ordaining married men to the priesthood in various parts of the world as a way of addressing ministerial shortages. This thesis provides a review and analysi…
İbâziyye, Hâricî grupların içinde neşet etmiştir. Ehl-i Sünnet'e karşı muhalif olsalar da Hâricîler gibi aktif olarak savaşmayan, kuûdu tercih eden bir gruptur. Bu sebeple merkeze uzak dursalar da günümüze kadar ulaşmayı başaran bir gruptur. Ehl-i Sünnet'e ibadet ve itikatta ola…
The principle of subsidiarity was one of the ten principles that guided the canonical revision process of the 1917 Code of Canon Law. Yet insufficient scholarly attention has been paid to the development of subsidiarity regarding the canonical revision process. This dissertation…
This thesis presents an examination of the Sacrament of Confirmation as a sacrament of initiation distinct from baptism. It examines the history and development of the rite of confirmation and the theological understanding of its nature and effects and how this development influ…
Can lay people serve as judges in ecclesiastical tribunals? For a large portion of the Church’s history, the answer has been a firm “No!” In the last century, however, things have begun to change. While the 1917 Code and the Church’s teachings prior to it, except in rare and rar…
While the libellus is the instrument that introduces litigation in an ordinary contentious trial, causes concerning the nullity of matrimonial consent have often involved investigations before or at the time of the presentation of the libellus. It is necessary to have an accurat…
Based upon the history of Catholic cemeteries and their governance, this paper draws out the historic goals and themes of Catholic cemeteries. In that context, it discusses how particular law promulgated under canon 1243 of the Code of Canon Las can be most helpful for ensuring …
The evaluation of proofs in order to reach moral certainty about disputed questions of fact is an important part of the task of judges in ecclesiastical tribunals. This thesis explores the history of how the canonical system has regulated the evaluation of proofs, as well as the…
All those involved in the ecclesiastical tribunals are called "ministers of justice." Each minister of justice holds an ecclesiastical office that is properly defined in the Code of Canon Law. As a minister of justice, he or she is entrusted with the great responsibility of bein…
Since the discovery in 1996 of a first recension of Gratian's Decretum, there has been scholarly debate over whether the author of the first recension was the same person as the author of the second recension. The difficulties involved in the debate over the authorship of the De…
In October 1999 the Irish Christian Brothers decided in principle to establish a new lay trust, the Edmund Rice Schools Trust. In June 2008 it assumed trusteeship responsibility for almost one hundred schools. This study had six research aims. Firstly, this study examined the or…
In Indonesia, the interest of scholars and researchers to the study of thematic interpretations of the Qur'an as a new approach to interpreting the Qur'an began in the early nineties. Indonesian Muslims welcomed this trend very well. Therefore, these years are considered as the …
Kur'an-ı Kerim'de kesin ve bağlayıcı bir emirle hamrın haram olduğu bildirilmiştir. Ancak İslam hukukçuları arasında hamrın kapsamının ne olduğu, ihtilaflı bir konudur. Bu çalışma ile alkollü içkiler konusundaki Ebû Hanîfe'nin görüşlerinin tesbit edilmesi amaçlanmıştır.
Bir sahâbînin fıkhî bir mesele hakkında vaki olan uygulamasına, fetvasına veya kazasına sahâbî kavli denilmektedir. Hüccet sayılıp sayılmaması tartışmalı olduğu için bir ictihadda bulunurken kaynak olarak kullanılması kimi fakihler tarafından çeşitli yönlerden eleştiriye maruz k…
This dissertation argues that between the years 586 and 712 the Visigothic Church and its failure to control its autonomous and corrupt bishops and clergy had a serious impact on the functionality of the Visigothic government and eventually contributed to the fragmentation and f…
Athanasius of Alexandria’s list of canonical scriptures has often been taken as a natural terminus in the long, inevitable process that led to the development of a fixed “New Testament.” Recently, however, a number of scholars have challenged this point of view, arguing instead …
Literally, the term Maqāsid al-Shari'ah has been translated as objectives of Islamic law by many Islamic scholars and yet, this term has been technically and theoretically used as a new legal doctrine in Islamic legal studies. This term has been used in a wider meaning with new …
“İbn Kudâme’nin el-Muğnî Adlı Eserindeki Ebû Hanife’ye Nispet Edilen Görüşlerin Tahkiki (İbadetler Bölümü)”adlı bu çalışma; Hanbelî mezhebinin muteber kitaplarından olan el-Mğnî’nin ibadetler bölümünde İmam Ebû Hanife’ye nispet edilen görüşlerin doğru olup olmadığı tespit edilme…
İslam dini, huzuru, hoşgörüyü, saygıyı ve sevgiyi öngörür. İslamiyet; özünde bu güzellikleri barındırarak iyiliklerin, saygının ve insan olmanın kapısını sonuna kadar açmıştır. İslamiyeti gönülden benimseyen peygamberler ve onların yolunu takip eden din âlimleri dinin her alanda…