Folia Theologica et Canonica 11. 33/25 (2022)
Recensions
RECENSIONS 245 the Church are also members of a specific State, which imposes constitutional obligations on the State as well), not only with regard to the Catholic Church but also with regard to agreements with other religions (Separation y cooperation entre el Estado y las confesiones religiosas: los Acuerdos con la Iglesia católicay con otras confesiones en Espaha, pp. 554-770). Finally, among the studies on the current canonical discipline, I would like to highlight Patrick Valdrini’s clear overview of the question of synodality, with regard to the specific governmental authority of the bishop (Syodalité et rationabilitas des decisions dans l’exercice de la potestas regiminis de l’évéque diocésain, pp. 702-712). Like the international panorama of the authors and subjects of the current canon law, the works on the history of canon law enrich not only the volume but also canon law science itself with an impressively comprehensive and outstanding level of scholarly results. This is guaranteed by names such as Orazio Condorelli (i.e. “Jus civile ” e “ius canonicum La ricerca di un coordinamento alia luce dellapiu antica scienza giuridica, pp. 104-136); Charles Donahue Jr. (i.e. Legal History and Ecclesiastical Court Records: Thoughts Prompted by The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History, pp. 183-198); Anne J. Duggan (i.e. Audiuimus et audientes. A critical question of dating, pp. 199-216); Richard H. Flelmholz (i.e. The Sequestration of Women and the Canon Law of Marriage [X 4.1.14], pp. 366-379); Anne Lefebvre-Teillard (i.e. De postulatione prelatorum. Les canonistes parisiens face aux premieres interventions d’Innocent III, pp. 420—441); Kenneth Pennington (i.e. Sources of Medieval Canon Law, pp. 571-588); and the author of the present lines (i.e. Critical Overview ont he Material of the Medieval Library of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. New Emphases, pp. 663-672). The complete volume contains the work of forty-two distinguished authors in the field of the current canon law and canon law history. At the beginning of the work, after a brief introduction by Peter Szabó, President of the Canon Law Institute (Profilo biografici, pp. 5-6), there is the Tabula Gratulatoria, with notable names such as Card. Zenon Grocholewski (|2020). The above mentioned outstanding experts and content of the book allow us to assert without any doubt that the volume of Sacrorum canonum scientia, compiled as a tribute to Card. Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, is a worthy acknowledgment of one of the most outstanding canon lawyers of our times, who enriched the sacred sciences in all areas of canon law with indispensable ideas at the level of the Universal Church and international scholarly research. The volume, published in a prestigious format by the Saint Stephan Society, and the studies which it contains, like the celebrated author’s professional work to date, will certainly become a reference point in the everyday study of canon science. Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem.
