Folia Theologica et Canonica 11. 33/25 (2022)
Sacra theologia
100 SZABOLCS ANZELM SZUROMI, OPraem. dau (f2019) [Munich, 1999]4 with particular regard to the Decretum Gratiani (about 1140) and to its critical edition by Emil Albert Friedberg (f 1910).5 Due to the fundamental influence of the ecclesiological writings of the patristic authors, a systematic and comparative content analysis of the ecclesiological essentials of the works of St. Jerome - as well as of the other important church fathers - and the processing of the role of the individual canon law collections, compiled in a universal nature, developing the essential ecclesiological character of the ecclesiological image of the church, was carried out basically from 2001, by the author of the present lines (i.e. Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianae, Decretum Burchardi Wormatiensis, Collectio in 74 titulos digesta, Collectio canonum cardinalis Deusdedit, Collectio Anselmi Lucensis, the textual families of Ivo of Chartres’ Decretum, Panormia and Tripartita, and the Decretum Gratiani).6 I. The Patristic Literature as the Fundamental Source of the Ecclesiological Contents of the Collections of Ecclesiastical Discipline It can already be observed in the Apostolic Age that authority within the Church is traced back to the apostles chosen by Christ, whom - and their successors - Jesus gave the power of governance (Mt 28:18-20). A specific formulation of this is found in chapter 42 of St. Clement of Rome’s letter to the Corinthians.7 Therefore, it is no coincidence that the early canonical writings 4 Landau, P., Patristische Texte in den beiden Rezensionen des Decretum Gratianus, in Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 23 (1999) 77-84. 5 Cf. Friedberg, Ae. (ed.), Corpus iuris canonici, I. Lipsiae 1879 (repr. Graz 1955). 6 Szuromi, Sz. A., Die patristische Wurzel der bischöflichen Kirchendisziplin in der «Collectio Anselmi Lucensis», in Rivista Internazionale di diritto comune 12 (2001) 249-263. Szuromi, Sz. A., Patristic texts in the Collectio Canonum Anselmi Lucensis (Recension ‘A ) and their correspondence with the Decretum Gratiani, in Folia Canonica 1 (2004) 71-108. Szuromi, Sz. A., Rules concerning bishops in the Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianae, especially the regulation on the death of bishops, in Folia Theologica 15 (2004) 145-156. Szuromi, Sz. A., Rules concerning bishops in an early Gregorian canonical collection, in Folia Theologica 16 (2005) 143-152. Cf. Canon Law Handbook by Ivo of Chartres, in Folia Canonica 9 (2006) 93-116. Szuromi, Sz. A., Anselm of Lucca as a Canonist (A textual-critical overview on the ‘Collectio Canonum Anselmi Lucensis’) [Adnotationes in Ius Canonicum], Frankfurt am Main 2006. Szuromi, Sz. A., Development of the clerical duties and rights based on the IIth- 12th centuries canonical collections, in Folia Canonica 10 (2007) 207-219. Szuromi, Sz. A., Some witnesses on the gradual evolution of the Ivonian textual families, in Ius Canonicum 50 (2010) 201-219. Szuromi, Sz. A., From a reading book to structuralized canonical collection: Textual development of the Ivonian work (Aus Recht und Religion 14), Berlin 2010. Szuromi, Sz. A., Peculiarities of Decretum Burchardi Wormatiensis especially regarding the discipline about bishops and their duties, in Revista Espahola de Derecho Canonico 71 (2014) 469-482. 7 Clement de Rome, Épitre aux corinthiens (Sources Chrétiennes [hereafter: SCh] 167), Paris 1971. 168-171.
