Il Vangelo e la spada. La giustificazione della legge e del processo nella Canonica criminalis praxis di Pietro Follerio

: Some statements of Christ seem to exclude the right to recourse to the courts, foreseeing a Kingdom where there will not be the Law, but only the love. How did the Canon Lawyers defend their role? Petrus Follerius wrote some interesting considerations about this problem in his Canonica criminalis praxis, which reflect the conflict between the Ecclesiastical institution and the Evangelism, typical of the16th century