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To: nihil who wrote (30726)	7/2/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Nihil, Civil law long predates Christianity. Maybe you mean that Justinian, a Christian emperor, collected the civil laws that make up the Civil Code as we know it, but he was collecting things that long pre-existed him. I hate to have to go dig up my old Civil law texts and Professor Yianopolous would take away my two A's in Civil Law Property I and II if he knew that I can't remember it off the top of my head.

To: nihil who wrote (30726)	7/2/1999 1:34:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

[Servetus] discussion of blood circulation was in his book against the trinity (I understand). I don't see find evidence for it. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy doesn't make this apparent if it's the case. Servetus was a prolific writer and they mention a number of his books. You can't win a case claiming that Civil Law is not a Christian institution. I don't see why not, since Geneva was operating on Roman civil law that long predated any Christian political rule. The heresy law that the civil court in Geneva used against Servetus was the same or similar to that used against the early Christians in Rome. Heresy may have been a civil law crime, but the Civil Law (Roman Law) was compiled and developed by Christians... Except that the Christians didn't compile the law. They were using the Roman civil code that they had inherited. Any thing Calvin ever did was the result of Calvinism, wasn't it? Calvin would say that all he did was the result of his Christian faith. He would likely have claimed Augustine as an intellectual father. He had studied theology at the University of Paris. Calvin wrote a critique of the laws against usury, arguing that the bible didn't prohibit lending money at interest and opened the door for banking and capitalism. Calvin argued for the structural independence of church and state.