Condition as newThis book explores the legal issues and legal consequences underlying relations between the secular and the religious authorities in the context of the Christian Church from its earliest emergence within the Roman Palestine as a persecuted minority sect, through the period when it became legally recognised within the Roman empire , its many institutional manifestations in the East and the West throughout the Middle Ages , the reconfigurations associated with Reformation and Catholic or Counter - Reformations, the legal and constitutional complications and the variable consequences of the so called secularization thereafter