CHRISTIAN LAW
Nikolai K. Roerich, Christs signs, 1924
Christian law[1]
(Bible)
Built on legitimateness, legal subjectivity as well as legal power and cultural meanings of legal statements of New and Old Testaments, based on religious sovereignty of Jesus Christ and legal doctrine of monotheism.
It includes three major confessional legal (judicial) schools: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant as well as apocryphal law and law of other non-canon and non-official Christian groups (sects) and religious associations (communities).
Widely spread both in the Old and New Worlds, due to missionary activities of the churches.
Christian law, initially appeared in the East and having deep cultural and legal traditions and roots on the Asian Continent, conquered by power of example almost the whole world, shows both the conditional character of world division into the East and the West and, on the other hand, again affirms its integrity and wholesomeness (unity) in culture and cultural law with other spiritual and intellectual (legal) trends and legal practices.
Orthodox Christianity, as a traditional legal world outlook, traditional Christian religion of Russia, traditional Christian law of religious community, now being a constituent part of religious heritage of Russia, appeared in the 10th century A.D. in connection with the Christening of Russia by Prince Vladimir.
[1] вhe term means integrated, common and special law as well as private and public ones including secular sources, religious legislation (including secular aspects of legal regulation of the current legal systems). This includes canonical and church both internal and external Ecclesiastical law, Catholic law proper, Orthodox (Holy Father) legal legend, legal doctrines of the Protestants and new religious Christian outlook communities, groups and trends.
Recommended literature:
Suvorov N.S. Textbook on Church Law. Moscow: Zertsalo Publishing House, 2004. - 504 pp. (Russian Legal Heritage Series).
Papayan R.A. Christian Roots of Contemporary Law. - Ьoscow.: Norma Publishing House, 2002. - 416 pp.
Russian Orthodox Church and Law: Comments. Moscow, BEK Publishing House, 1999, 464 pp.
Islam in the Russian Empire (legal acts, description, statistics). Ьoscow, "Akademkniga" Publishing House, 2001. - 367 pp.
