Religion, Law and the Growth of Constitutional Thought, 1150-1650To understand the growth of Western constitutional thought, we need to consider both ecclesiology and political theory, ideas about the Church as well as ideas about the state. In this book Professor Tierney traces the interplay between ecclesiastical and secular theories of government from the twelfth century to the seventeenth. He shows how ideas revived from the ancient past Roman law, Aristotelian political philosophy, teachings of Church fathers