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Schutten, Andre and John Sikkema. "Opportunity and Temptation: A Reformed Christian Legal Perspective on Church Discipline in Canada." Cardus, 2019. https://cardus.ca/research/faith-communities/research-report/opportunity-and-temptation/
In this paper, André Schutten and John Sikkema explore church-state relations in Reformed Christian thought. They describe the high view of both government and local church authority present in the Reformed tradition. They examine recent legal conflicts in Canada between church and state, including Supreme Court cases such as Wall v. Highwood Congregation andthe two Trinity Western University cases (2018), and human rights tribunal proceedings regarding the institutional autonomy of congregations to enforce church discipline. This paper is the third in a series of presentations made at the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute’s Symposium on the Intersection of Civil and Canon Law.
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