The claims to universality advanced by the medieval Church brought it into close relationship with an ancient human institution: the state. Especially after the fourth century, when it was first recognized and then given status as the only legal religious body, it was necessary for the Church to formulate a set of poliyical principles, comparable to those for economic activity, which could then be applied to the many and continuing relations between church and state. The general outline of these principles was completed by 500 and was transmitted to the Middle Ages. [excerpt
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Over many centuries, church and state have grown together, and apart. Sometimes linked like Siamese ...
The fall of Rome did not, as many contemporaries had expected, preface the end of the world. Rather,...
The Church in the West had made the claim that it could and would bring all men into subjection to g...
In the centuries which followed its recognition by the Roman Empire, the Church had gradually develo...
One of the most significant developments of the early modern period was the evolution of the nationa...
In this section an attempt has been made to sketch some of the most important developments of the fi...
We have already noted the Church\u27s claim to teach in all its fulness every doctrine that men oug...
Feudalism was the natural response to the greatest political need of the Dark Ages: security. Since ...
Parallel to the military and political system called feudalism, and acting as the foundation, was an...
We know very little about the organization of what has been called the primitive Church. The belief ...
In the statements of the early Middle Ages, the most perennial question was how ought, regnum and Sa...
Throughout the whole history of religious experience there have been two supplementary emphases, the...
Between the end of the High Middle Ages (about 1350) and the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth...
This paper will explore the principal figures, activities, issues and doctrines that shaped the asce...
Perhaps no individual after Paul exercised an influence on t he history of Christianity comparable t...
Over many centuries, church and state have grown together, and apart. Sometimes linked like Siamese ...
The fall of Rome did not, as many contemporaries had expected, preface the end of the world. Rather,...