Discussions on Church Principles
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ISBN13: 9780217200059
Paperback|9780217200059
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: one may properly be designated his temporal supremacy, as being co-extensive in the sphere of its operation with his spiritual supremacy as the head of the church, and as being based in the middle ages upon the same divine right; while the other is accurately described as his. temporal sovereignty. Gosselin's work contains nothing upon the subject of the Pope's spiritual supremacy as the head of the church, but consists chiefly of historical researches in regard to his temporal sovereignty and his temporal supremacy. He has a long Introduction, occupying about a fourth part of the volume, on the honours and temporal prerogatives granted to religion and its ministers among ancient nations, and especially under the first Christian emperors. This Introduction is directed to the object of showing, that among the most enlightened heathen nations of antiquity the ministers of religion possessed a large amount of wealth and property, enjoyed many important privileges, and exerted a considerable influence in the regulation of national affairs; and that Constantine and the first Christian emperors acted wisely in confirming to the church all the property she had already acquired, in greatly increasing its amount by donations of money and lands, and in conferring upon the clergy many important privileges, a considerable extent of judicial authority, and political influence. The way is thus paved for removing prejudices, and conciliating favour towards the temporal sovereignty which arose in the eighth century, and the temporal supremacy which was first fully claimed and exercised in the eleventh; as if these were the natural and appropriate results of an earlier and more unobjectionable state of matters, the legitimate consequences of the general condition of the church and the worl...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217200059 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217200052 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $30.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 272 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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