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- ISSN: 0165-2346
- E-ISSN: 2773-1847
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Gedeeld ambtsgeheim?
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Kerk en Theologie, Volume 73, Issue 3, Aug 2022, p. 288 - 302
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- 01 Aug 2022
Abstract
Abstract
Those who serve in ecclesial ministry are bound to official secrecy. Does this prohibit any form of sharing with others, particularly if those others are bound to secrecy themselves? This contribution first deals with terminology: the secrecy or the confession is theologically to be seen as the basis of official of professional secrecy of ministers. After a short explanation of professional secrecy in public law, privacy is being dealt with as important to the context today. Then this article describes church polity provisions in this respect, both in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN). Finally, it comes to the issue of sharing with others, dealing in particular with case law in PCN discipline which seems to permit sharing within certain limitations.
© Leo Koffeman
Keyword(s):
church polity;
discipline;
official secrecy;
professional secrecy;
secrecy of the confession