Twenty years after the introduction of the “Theology of Canon Law” among the academic disciplines prescribed by the decree Novo Codice, an awareness of an internal crisis has emereged within each of these disciplines: on the one hand, Church law has not succeeded, despite its efforts, in freeing itself from a profound anti-juridical sentiment that condemns it to remain confined within the dismaying categories of its ordered principle; on the other hand, theology seems to be characterised by a certain irrelevance, noting that the life of the Church is articulated apart from the arguments offered by the critical sense of the faith. The perspective of this article is to sketch a relationship between theology and law that does not start from the claim of a positive foundation of its own but rather from the concrete form that the relationship between believers takes with respect to the credibility or authenticity of the Gospel.