Secular and sacred in law of the christian civilization

Abstract

The focus of the study is an important aspect in the relationship law –  religion, namely secular and sacred. The problem is considered within the Christian religion  and the legal civilization formed on this basis. For a long time, the sacred and the secular have  been two sides on the normative order created by religion and embodied by church. Texts  from the Bible prove that the idea of law is common: it is divided into a law that regulates  man’s communion with God and a law that regulate human affaires. From this point of view,  the prescriptions of the Old and New Testaments are analyzed.  

Gradually, law is separated from religion, increasingly competed with it, and opposed  religious dogmas. The Modern law is secular law, but in it, as well as in justice, there are  sacred features and elements. Such we find in some legal rules and institutions, in legal  constructions and theories. The development of law as secular phenomenon does not deprive  it on the halo of some holiness, without however, opposing its rationality. Law does not refuse  to seek legitimacy that goes beyond its justification by power. The concept of the rule of law,  with its inherent feature – human rights – plays such a role. This concept becomes something  like a “secular religion” of law. 

Both values, some of which are originally associated with religion, and goals that are  inherent in its secular nature penetrate in law. The attitude to the sacralization of law and  justice is one of the main lines along which different views of law can be distinguished,  including nowadays. The differences between law and morality, including religious, do not  exclude the possibility, even allow, drawing inspiration from the provisions of the New  Testament, law to became more humane and increasingly socialize. 

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