A bit of unashamed – and entirely unremunerated – advertorial…
For those of you who are unaware of its existence, the Ecclesiastical Law Society was founded in 1987, initially to fill what the late Quentin Edwards described as “an ecclesiastical law shaped hole in the Church of England from the dissolution of Doctors’ Commons in 1857”. Its stated purpose as a charity is “to promote the study of ecclesiastical and canon law, particularly in the Church of England and those churches in communion with it.” So on the face of it, the ELS may look like a group entirely concerned with the technicalities of Anglican ecclesiastical law; however, its activities range far more widely than that, not unlike this blog’s “occasional forays further afield”. Continue reading