Folia Theologica et Canonica 9. 31/23 (2020)
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RECENSIONS 349 references, and the unified concept of the Author. We can face several times the mentality of the provider pastor of his flock, who intends to give responsible, well deliberated and wise guidance to those who are entrusted on him. The Author does pastoral care always keeping in mind the point of view of the universal- and also of the particular Church. This presented volume is introduced by the Preface (pp. 7-9), followed by the Contents (pp. 11-12) then takes place the scientific abbreviation (pp. 13-17). It supplied with an Italian (pp. 403-404) and English Contents (pp. 405-406) at the end of the book. The Soul of Canon Law work shows precisely the importance of the knowledge of the disciplines and the teaching of the Magisterium in order to understand those recurring - even pastoral - questions which arise in the Church on the day to day basis. Therefore, it is extraordinary important for the Christ-faithful’s life to understand as well as possible the logic of the ecclesiastical daily activities and the disciplinary and doctrinal principles behind them, which go back to the Apostolic Age’s tradition. Cardinal Peter Erdő’s new work can serve this important goal, helping not only to priests or laymen, but to all of those who are interested in the canonical system of the Catholic Church. Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem. Fantappié, C., Per un cambio di paradigma. Diritto canonico, teológia e riforme nella Chiesa (Collana Diritto canonico 15), Edizioni Dehoniane Bologna, Bologna 2019, pp. 191 Carlo Fantappié, professor of the Universitá di Roma Tre, renowned Italian law and canon law historian, gives general view on the alteration of the Church’ functioning according to her reflection to the contemporary circumstances in his brilliant legal-theory work: “A paradigm shift. Canon law, theology and reform of the Church”. This work shows from fundamentally new aspect those doctrinal and disciplinary regulating principles which arose in different epochs of the canon law history, which appeared and appear in concrete form in the independent legislative activity of the Church. This new concept enlightens primarily from a historian’s point of view those normative criteria which are constant and inconstant in every epoch, including the alteration of emphasis in ecclesiastical interpretation (pp. 11-18). The volume is distributed into five chapters. The first one discusses on the paradigms of canon law, arranging tern in historical line, means: explaining the characteristic of the classic, the Tridentine, and the epoch of codifications (pp. 11-43). We can read in this chapter one of the most important section of this work, which outlines - at the same time - the elements of the Carlo Fan-
