Gesammelte Schriften

In Volume VI of his Collected Essays, Martin Heckel deals with the effects of the Reformation on the history of ecclesiastical law and of the law pertaining to the state churches. As he did in Volumes I-V, the author focuses on an interdisciplinary synopsis of the legal forms and their - often antagonistic - causes and conditions which were political, theological, or pertained to the history of ideas or social history. The author describes the long road taken by the modern liberal-pluralistic law pertaining to the established churches as it emerged from the closed system of a Christian state and developed pluralistic forms of freedom and equality in modern laws on religion.