There is an ongoing debate about whether the U.S. Constitution includes -- or should be interpreted to include -- a principle of church autonomy. Catholic doctrine and political theology, by contrast, clearly articulated a principle of libertas ecclesiae, liberty of the church, when during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Church differentiated herself from the state. This article explores the meaning and origin of the doctrine of the libertas ecclesiae and the proper relationship among churches, civil society, and government. In doing so, it highlights the points at which church and state should cooperate and the points at which mutual assistance would be ultra vires
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There is an ongoing debate about whether the U.S. Constitution includes -- or should be interpreted ...
This paper argues that questions about religious freedom must be subordinated to the fundamental p...
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This article, originally written for a French audience, attempts to explain the American law of chur...
The doctrine of church autonomy has its own exclusive line of precedent running from Watson v. Jones...
This article was presented at a conference, and is part of a symposium, on The Freedom of the Churc...
American low regarding churches as presented in Professor Zollmnnn\u27s revised edition of American ...
This paper has two aims. They are more in the nature of history than law. The first aim is to show t...
In this article, the absence of an American equivalent to the French word laĭcité becomes an ethnogr...
As the state extends its operations into all areas of social life, it breaches the protective \u27wa...
The intersection of church and state today differs greatly from the symbiotic relationship of the pa...
The Health and Human Services\u27 regulatory requirement that all but a narrow set of religious em...
Our topic at this symposium is religion, the state, and constitutionalism -not the Constitution, ...
In its recent ruling in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, the U.S. Supreme Court t...
Blog post, “What is the Origin of the Separation of Church and State?“ discusses politics, theology ...
There is an ongoing debate about whether the U.S. Constitution includes -- or should be interpreted ...
This paper argues that questions about religious freedom must be subordinated to the fundamental p...
Separation of church and state is right up there with Mom, apple pie, and baseball in American icon...
This article, originally written for a French audience, attempts to explain the American law of chur...
The doctrine of church autonomy has its own exclusive line of precedent running from Watson v. Jones...
This article was presented at a conference, and is part of a symposium, on The Freedom of the Churc...
American low regarding churches as presented in Professor Zollmnnn\u27s revised edition of American ...
This paper has two aims. They are more in the nature of history than law. The first aim is to show t...
In this article, the absence of an American equivalent to the French word laĭcité becomes an ethnogr...
As the state extends its operations into all areas of social life, it breaches the protective \u27wa...
The intersection of church and state today differs greatly from the symbiotic relationship of the pa...
The Health and Human Services\u27 regulatory requirement that all but a narrow set of religious em...
Our topic at this symposium is religion, the state, and constitutionalism -not the Constitution, ...
In its recent ruling in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, the U.S. Supreme Court t...
Blog post, “What is the Origin of the Separation of Church and State?“ discusses politics, theology ...