Funkcje prawa w Kościele rzymskokatolickim i Kościele Ewangelicko-Augsburskim w RP

There is a phenomenon of law in the Christian Churches. The paper describes and compares functions of law, that is, social effects of legal norms from endogenic laws of the two of them: in the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland. It presents functions, such as: creative and organization function, protective and defending function for the personal rights, function of sharing material burdens and distributing the goods, function of regulation of solving conflicts, repressive function, informative and teaching function, educational function, protective and defending function for the matter of faith, salvation function. The conclusion is that functions of law in both Churches are: elaborated and complicated, mixed in their character and can be divided into the typical functions for the Church as a regular society and as a spiritual one, congruent only to some extent