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Title: On Temporal & Spiritual Authority
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0865977178
EAN: 9780865977174
ISBN: 9780865977174
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 25/05/2012
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 153mm
Item Weight: 710g
Author: Robert Bellarmine
Contributor: Stefania Tutino (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Law & Politics
Release Year: 2012
Description: Robert Bellarmine was one of the most original and influential political theorists of his time. He participated in several of the political debates that agitated early modern Europe, such as the controversy over the Oath of Allegiance in England. Bellarmine presents one of the clearest and most coherent definitions of the nature and aim of temporal authority and its relationship to spiritual authority. The king has jurisdiction over the body, the pope over the conscience. This distinction was crucial for the history of early modern monarchies: the conflict between state and church ceased to be concerned with physical persons and become a contest for the consciences of subjects. The political thought of Bellarmine was at the center of post-Reformation debates on the relationship between state and church; on the nature, aim, and limits of temporal government; and on the relation between religion and natural law. He posed in a novel, controversial manner the relationship between public and private spheres, thus opening up questions central to what we consider 'modernity'. This accessible edition of some of Ballarmine's most important works in fresh translations will be interesting for a wide readership of both scholars of political thought and the educated general public.

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