Moore's Introduction to English Canon Law: Fourth Edition

This book has proved invaluable to clergy and lawyers. This fourth revised edition brings it thoroughly up to date in light of recent and forthcoming changes to ecclesiastical law.The book is not only for lawyer and theologian but for the layperson who wishes to know more about the law of the Church of England and its relationship to the rest of canon law and the law of the land. Theological students and clergy need to know the canon law in which much of their theology and parish work is embedded. Finally, practising lawyers are finding more ecclesiastical cases coming their way; they will find here information on the immediate problem as well as the background of ecclesiastical law in which it is set. The book deals with the basic principles on which canon law is built and with the complications which arise by reason of the Establishment, and gives in outline the constitution of the Church of England, and the law relating to its worship, sacraments, property, and persons.