Publicación: El control protestante de la transgresión moral: ¿Disciplina o derecho?
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2007
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Este artículo analiza los fundamentos doctrinales del derecho penal eclesiástico calviniano, asentado teóricamente en la teología del pecado original y cuyo ejercicio toma forma en la práctica del Consistorio ginebrino. Asimismo, explora las razones de la diferencia entre derecho penal eclesial y civil. Y es que, aunque en el calvinismo la Iglesia y el Estado son titulares de un ius gladii, sólo uno de estos sistemas penales puede reivindicar el ejercicio de la pena corporal, el otro tan sólo puede reclamar un castigo espiritual: en esto haremos radicar la diferencia entre derecho y disciplina. El derecho de coacción propiamente dicho pertenece en exclusiva al Estado como tal y ni el individuo ni la Iglesia pueden reclamarlos para sí. Estamos ante una aportación fundamental de la Reforma a la historia del derecho.
This paper discusses the doctrinal foundations of criminal law in Calvin’s ecclesiology, namely his theology of original sin, and its practical implementation in the Geneva consistory. On these grounds, I analyse the distinction between civil and ecclesiastical criminal law. Calvin granted both State and Church the ius gladii, but only the former can claim a right to impose physical punishment, whereas the latter should just punish spiritually. Here lies, in my view, the difference between law and discipline. The right of coercion properly so called belongs exclusively to the state as such and neither the individual nor the church can claim it for themselves. Here we have a fundamental contribution to the history of law by the Reformation.
This paper discusses the doctrinal foundations of criminal law in Calvin’s ecclesiology, namely his theology of original sin, and its practical implementation in the Geneva consistory. On these grounds, I analyse the distinction between civil and ecclesiastical criminal law. Calvin granted both State and Church the ius gladii, but only the former can claim a right to impose physical punishment, whereas the latter should just punish spiritually. Here lies, in my view, the difference between law and discipline. The right of coercion properly so called belongs exclusively to the state as such and neither the individual nor the church can claim it for themselves. Here we have a fundamental contribution to the history of law by the Reformation.
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derecho penal, Calvino, Iglesia-Estado, Reforma, penal law, Jean Calvin, Church-State, Reformation
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Filosofía y Filosofía Moral y Política