ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part explains about the management of the Church’s affairs – it is basically Church discipline and organisation. It deals with the human sources of law – the human authorities within the churches that can adopt the laws. The part discusses the role of interpretation and higher sources, such as the Bible and theology. It focuses on the ‘theocentric-anthropocentric predicament’, another way of asking what the role of human agency is and whether it is recognised openly. The part explains how the tradition has attempted to define the proper role of transcendent divinity and of human prudence and agency. It highlights the drastic changes brought about to the sources of law by the advent of the modern State. The part describes the traditional sources of Islamic law, and ‘modernity and the sources of the revelation’.
