ABSTRACT
The very term ‘reception’ has been used in modern times by legal historians, mainly Germans, in regard to the part played by Roman law in the usage of ecclesiastical or civil society, as in Germany from the fifteenth century … . According to A. Grillmeier, reception would exist properly only in the case of the reception of specific synods by the universal Church or by a very large part of the Church, or by separate Churches: for example, if the Nestorians were to accept Ephesus, or the Monophysites Chalcedon. Anything else is reception in a wider, imprecise sense.17
