Dispensation and economy in the early church -- The development of dispensation in the west -- Economy in the east since 1054 -- Dispensation in the contemporary Roman Catholic Church -- Legal flexibility in English law -- Dispensation in the Church of England -- Testing flexibility : the ritual controversy in the nineteenth-century Church of England -- Testing flexibility : the proposed revision of the Book of common prayer 1927-8 -- Testing flexibility : the use of economy in Anglican-Orthodox relations -- Ecumenism and economy : legal flexibility and inter-church relations -- Dispensation, economy and legal theory