Lawyer, Vol. 52 No. 104, 2018.
Professional paper
Dialectics as a Possible Concept of Understanding the Process of Development of Divorce and the Role of Catholic Church in that Process
Karlo Kožina
orcid.org/0000-0002-1355-6230
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to offer a possible basis for the understanding of divorce in the context of entanglement with Christianity. The possibility of free divorce in contemporary legal systems is understood and accepted as a legal principle. Divorce is historically, in the European context, fundamentally intertwined with Christianity and the canon law. The author presents the development of divorce through the examples of those countries whose legal systems (indirectly or directly) have influenced the most on contemporary Western-European legal systems. However, a special attention will be paid to the territory of Croatia. Nevertheless, regarding to the divorce, author suggests the application of Hegel's dialectics as one of the possible concepts in understanding of the development of that legal institution.
Keywords
divorce; marriage; marital law; canon law; dialectics
Hrčak ID:
213965
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2018.
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