Abstract
Under the label of “Roman law and Christian society” have been identified, in different ways, many serious aspects. On the one hand some finds it, above all, an imitation by the young Christian society of certain Roman institutions or legal practices. For others, it represents a reception of Roman legal solutions into the ecclesiastical life, while Christian precepts became laws. Reception, acceptance, influence or correction are attitudes which govern the relationships between Roman legal order and the 4th century society. Moreover, the meeting of law and theology that occurred in this period had a significant importance for the subsequent history of the Christian doctrine.