Today I learned about The Church-State Struggle and Western Liberty.
- Struggle between two powers yields libery (church and state)
- Lord Acton
- To this conflict we owe the rise of civil liberty
- Condorcet
- Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
- The decentralized power structure of Renaissance Italy owed itself to the rivalry between pope and emperor
- Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
- W.E.H. Lecky
- By no means a fan of the pope
- Still states that the church is completely favorable to liberty
- Competing powers are a barrier to despotism
- Guido de Ruggiero
- The History of European Liberalism
- Fighting between church and state frees possible prisoners of both
- The History of European Liberalism
- Alexander Rüstow
- Freedom and Domination
- Fighting between the two powers means that:
- The church remains the conscience of the state
- The state remains the critic of the church
- This benefits mankind
- Fighting between the two powers means that:
- Freedom and Domination
- Brian Tierney
- The Crisis of Church and State
- Philosophical consequences
- The Crisis of Church and State
- Harold J. Berman
- Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
- Competition of authority prevents tyranny
- Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
- Lord Acton
- Christianity and Western Liberty
- Greeks
- Lives revolved around the polis
- Romans
- The city of Rome a sacred thing
- Religious ritual devoted to the city
- Karl Ferdinand Werner
- St. Augustine and other Christians desacralized state
- Greeks