Digital Humanities play an increasing role in academic research today. The Gratian Encyclopedia Project aims to create a database for research in the History, Philosophy and Theology of Canon Law. Gradually growing, it wants to provide researchers and scholars with biographical details on canonists, links to their sources and information on current editions. As a long-term goal, it aims to invite scholars to contribute with their own expertise on topics in the History and Theology of Canon Law, building a research hub for this field of studies. These goals should be reached within three phases.
I. Phase:
Collection of relevant content and creation
of the main database
II. Phase:
Scholarly contributions on topics
surrounding the History and Theology of Canon Law
III.Phase:
Creating a research hub and basis for scholarly exchange in this field
The Editor
Stephan Hecht currently teaches for Fordham University in London after completing his doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Regensburg in 2019 and a licentiate in Canon Law at the Klaus-Mörsdorf-Institute (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) in Munich. Focusing on the origins of Christian subjectivity and the Theology of Law in the work of Francisco Suárez SJ (1548-1617), he is particularly interested in questions on the interlink between Canon Law, its History and Theology.