| Las Casas had to use the canonistic tradition in a situation that the canonists had never envisioned. |
| A rule, according to the sense affixed to it by canonists and moralists, is a guide to discipline, and a directer of the conduct. |
| In response, the bishops' conference appointed a subcommittee of canonists who drew up a new set of guidelines responding to the Vatican's wishes. |
| Medieval canonists like Gratian, theologians like Peter Lombard, and later, Alexander III, subject marriage to much examination and scrutiny. |
| In a distinctly medieval way, ressourcement was also the method of the theologians, canonists, and craftsmen at Chartres. |
| The same change of perspective might equally apply in our attitudes about the canons, and canonists, generally. |
