ABSTRACT
Norman Doe quite ambitiously titled one of his popular books Christian Law, but admits nonetheless: ‘There is no global system of Christian law . . . applicable to all of the followers of Jesus Christ. Each church or ecclesial community has its own laws or other regulating instruments consisting of binding norms’ (Doe, 2013: 1). Therefore, an exposition of the Christian legal sources must distinguish between denominations and their respective understanding of law, while at the same time such a comparison reveals relations and common roots. An exposition limited to one chapter can only examine principles without considering every detail.
