Table of Contents

Foreword Table of Statutes Table of Measures Table of Canons Table of Cases I. Introduction II. The Constitution: (I) The Establishment III. The Constitution: (II) Ecclesiastical IV. The Parish V. Non-Parochial Units 1. Cathedrals 2. Royal Peculiars 3. Other Peculiars 4. College Chapels 5. Chapels of Institutions and the Armed Forces 6. Guild Churches 7. Private Chapels 8. Mission Initiatives VI. Doctrine VII Worship VIII. Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Communion IX. Holy Matrimony X. The Other Offices and Penance 1. Morning and Evening prayer 2. Visitation and Communion of the Sick 3. The Churching of Women 4. Burial of the Dead 5. Penance XI Church Property XII Ceremonial, Furnishings, and Decorations XIII Ecclesiastical Persons XIV Ecclesiastical Courts and Legal Proceddings 1. General 2. The Faculty Jurisdiction 3. Criminal Jurisdiction XV Dispensation XVI Relations Between the CofE and Other Churches Index

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Invaluable to clergy, lawyers and students, this is a fully revised edition of a classic introductory text on ecclesiastical and canon law.

About the Author

Timothy J. Briden is a Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury, Chancellor of the Diocese of Bath and Wells and Chancellor of the Diocese of Truro. He is a member of the Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod and Chairman of the Ecclesiastical Judges Association.

Reviews

This new edition will teach a new generation that ecclesiastical law is itself an expression of the Gospel and of Christian Theology. Here we see how canon law is designed to help us fulfil our vocation to be a community which is a life-giving expression of God's grace. Law and grace are two sides of the same coin: without grace - no law; without law - no grace. Timothy Briden, editor of this fourth edition, is like a householder bringing forth treasures both old and new. In its pages Garth Moore, famed in his day for the guidance that the clergy should never wear brown shoes, exerts his continuing influence upon the character, ethos and practical outworking of English Ecclesiastical Law.
*Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York*

Garth Moore performed an invaluable service last century in sustaining canonical learning in Anglicanism. Timothy Briden has ensured the continuity of this service this century in an excellent new edition of Moore. Building on Moore's classic, the book presents recent developments in the field in a systematic, comprehensive, and clear way which is wholly at one with the spirit of the original.
*Professor Norman Doe, Director of the Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff Law School*