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CANONIST. One well versed in canon or ecclesiastical law.

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These sources come from a genre of literature called pastoralia, which was heavily dependent on the writings of canonists. Medieval pastoralia was a didactic form of literature that emerged to assist pastors in the care of souls, particularly in their roles as preachers and confessors.

The Deaconess: New Sources in Medieval Pastoralia

In a preemptive defense against peevish reviewers, McGuckin notes that he is not a canonist, a lawyer, or even a historian of law (11); neither is his book about canon law per se.

The Ascent of Christian Law: Patristic and Byzantine Formulations of a New Civilization

Moralists debated whether the requirements of a "direct abortion" had been met, while canonists questioned the penalty, noting the required lack of malicious intent to violate the law.

Pastoral discretion advised: law must always be tempered by mercy if justice is to be truly served

Although critical of the Cardinal, the sickening report gave him credit for instigating two secret canon law trials, despite strong opposition from one of the most powerful canonists in the Archdiocese, Monsignor Sheehy.

DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL; ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBLIN ABUSE REPORT BISHOPS' SHAME

He argues for justice as inherent rights, finding them in the Bible and twelfth-century canonists and not in Enlightenment thinkers or late-Middle-Age nominalists, as justice-as-right-order theorists would have it.

Justice: Rights and Wrongs

Among canonists in Rabelais's time there occurred considerable discussion of privilege--usually in the abstract singular Latin form privilegium, not the plural privilegia as in Urquhart's Latin or privileges as in Rabelais's French.

"Ex desuetudine amittuntur privilegia": Rabelais, Urquhart, and les clercs

Indeed, the centrality of conformidad to a marriage is a concept developed from Isidore of Seville and medieval canonists through sixteenth-century commentators, and was expressed with clarity by them well before the Comedia became an art form.

Love in the 'Corral': Conjugal Spirituality and Anti-Theatrical Polemic in Early Modern Spain

Many theologians and canonists agree that while the issue of abortion is worthy of serious discussion in the church, a person who is "prochoice" is not automatically a heretic.

Prochoice Catholic theology 101

Many canonists from across the country gathered in London, Ontario, to consider results 20 years after the launching of the new Code of Canon Law.

Canon Law Convention: London 2003

Canonists had differing views on the need to say the office aloud.

Raphael's Portrait Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi: a religious interpretation *

Scholars, theologians and canonists answer that there is a great deal a virtuous prince could do (for the good of the kingdom), particularly as England has been subject to discriminatory policies at the hands of various popes from centuries.

Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press. (Reviews: early modern Britain)

Euben calls the former group "conservative canonists" and the latter he calls "multiculturalists." While the labels might be thought unrealistically broad, the conflict is real enough.