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I recently purchased Marriage in Church in State by TA Lacey (2nd ed revised and updated by RC Mortimer). Here are my thoughts:Overall the book was pretty dry. While reasonably informative the pace was so slow that one felt the time spent reading would have been better spent being hit with a hammer. The chief concern of Lacey in the first half was mostly with the natural law to somewhat amusing results. Reading an Anglican argue natural law is like watching an one-armed man juggle; they can maintain for a while but eventually they drop the ball.
Now to the criticisms. Lacey's treatment of pornea in Matthew was brief and compromised by his unqualified acceptance of the Q document theory. On page 50, against the teaching of the Church, Lacey contends that the marriage of a Christian and non-Christian is sacramental as opposed to just natural. Then on page 51 Lacey exhibits the typical Anglican pathology against requiring clerical celibacy. Again the Anglican bias comes out at pages 62 and 124-125 when arguing against papal jurisdiction becomes a denial of all metropolitan and patriarchal power and an assertion of an inherent individual episcopal autonomy in all matters.
Lacey is also somewhat prone to tangents, especially if they agree with his bias. The majority of Lacey's treatment of the development of canon law is taken up (under headings such as "Development of Legalism") with comments about how the codification of a universal canon law was undermined by contrary local customs (and therefor a bad thing) and takes a whole page to discuss how the Church's law legitimizing offspring whose parents subsequently married was abrogated in England by the common law only to then state "This case apart, local customs affecting the law of marriage were few and unimportant." Why the overly long treatment of conflict between canons and customs if it has no bearing on the topic at hand, marriage?
Lacey also seems to be opposed to ecclesiastical courts having jurisdiction over marriage and divorce (from bed and board) at all because spiritual censures were applied which he claims led to them being degraded. "It was self-destructive, for the censures so mis-applied lost their terrors." p127. It seems that in Lacey's view marriage should be wholly the jurisdiction of the state; the Church's only role to solemnize it. Maybe he thought civil punishments instead of spiritual should be the stick to enforce marriage or maybe it was a result of his experience of Anglicanism's unholy state dominance over the church but it seems strange that he argues for state control.
The treatment of marriage in the Eastern Churches (exclusively Byzantine) was only given a mere 8 pages and the subject of divorce in the Eastern Churches (for which I purchased it) only a page and a half. I'll keep looking for a better treatment on the subject. All in all I did not care for Lacey's book.
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Marriage in church and state edition by TA Lacey Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
I recently purchased Marriage in Church in State by TA Lacey (2nd ed revised and updated by RC Mortimer). Here are my thoughts
Overall the book was pretty dry. While reasonably informative the pace was so slow that one felt the time spent reading would have been better spent being hit with a hammer. The chief concern of Lacey in the first half was mostly with the natural law to somewhat amusing results. Reading an Anglican argue natural law is like watching an one-armed man juggle; they can maintain for a while but eventually they drop the ball.
Now to the criticisms. Lacey's treatment of pornea in Matthew was brief and compromised by his unqualified acceptance of the Q document theory. On page 50, against the teaching of the Church, Lacey contends that the marriage of a Christian and non-Christian is sacramental as opposed to just natural. Then on page 51 Lacey exhibits the typical Anglican pathology against requiring clerical celibacy. Again the Anglican bias comes out at pages 62 and 124-125 when arguing against papal jurisdiction becomes a denial of all metropolitan and patriarchal power and an assertion of an inherent individual episcopal autonomy in all matters.
Lacey is also somewhat prone to tangents, especially if they agree with his bias. The majority of Lacey's treatment of the development of canon law is taken up (under headings such as "Development of Legalism") with comments about how the codification of a universal canon law was undermined by contrary local customs (and therefor a bad thing) and takes a whole page to discuss how the Church's law legitimizing offspring whose parents subsequently married was abrogated in England by the common law only to then state "This case apart, local customs affecting the law of marriage were few and unimportant." Why the overly long treatment of conflict between canons and customs if it has no bearing on the topic at hand, marriage?
Lacey also seems to be opposed to ecclesiastical courts having jurisdiction over marriage and divorce (from bed and board) at all because spiritual censures were applied which he claims led to them being degraded. "It was self-destructive, for the censures so mis-applied lost their terrors." p127. It seems that in Lacey's view marriage should be wholly the jurisdiction of the state; the Church's only role to solemnize it. Maybe he thought civil punishments instead of spiritual should be the stick to enforce marriage or maybe it was a result of his experience of Anglicanism's unholy state dominance over the church but it seems strange that he argues for state control.
The treatment of marriage in the Eastern Churches (exclusively Byzantine) was only given a mere 8 pages and the subject of divorce in the Eastern Churches (for which I purchased it) only a page and a half. I'll keep looking for a better treatment on the subject. All in all I did not care for Lacey's book.
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