ATV Interviews Ep 005: David Ould on General Synod

Kevin Kallsen and David Ould talk about the Australian General Synod and some very important votes taking place this week.

[alanbartley]

In Marriage in Church and State (1912) T. A. Lacey reminded us that the Church of England had never repudiated the Medieval Canon Law of Marriage while our Canons of 1604 were canons of discipline. Hence that when we quietly accepted secular marriage before a registrar, we allowed the repeal by desuetude of those canons of discipline requiring marriage within a church, before a priest etc. Hence "it follows that a marriage contracted before a Superintendent Registrar is valid, not because of the legal formalities observed, but because it is a contract per verba de praesenti in accordance with the Law of Nature. Equally will every other marriage so contracted be valid for spiritual purposes" [p.207-8]. Hence the Church of England and her descendants retain the Medieval definition of marriage, irregular marriage etc. unless and until specifically repudiated.

[timhower]

Kevin you are sitting in the correct spot, everything is now right in the World.