西方中世纪的神学法治理念

当日尔曼人用粗陋的习惯和蒙昧的意识取代了罗马人的法制和法治观念的时候，基督教教会却一直保存这一文明规则和观念。在教会抑制王权的斗争中，基督教神学不仅重申着法律的理性、正义和权威的思想，而且从中衍生出法律神圣、权力服从法律、法律至上等理念。这些理念，最终经阿奎那而演绎成了系统的神学法治学说。

The Theological Jurisprudence in the Middle Ages in the Western countries

In the process of controlling over the monarchical power by the church, the theology of Christianity not only reaffirms the ideology of rationality of law, justice ed per but also generates an ideological viewpoint that law is sacred, that power subjects to lax and law is supreme in power.