Abstract

In the legal systems of the most Protestant countries there is a growing interest in forms of public mediation, including “ecclesialµ or “ecclesiasticalµ mediation in which the church is mediator or benefits from internal or external mediation, with public or private authorities. In order to verify what is Protestant in the mediation practices of Protestant churches and States, this research therefore proposes to verify first of all their religious significance, applying the principle of sola scriptura, reconstructing the particular teleological mediations and theologies of mediation and finally examining the openings of churches’ law to mediation practices.