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Showing posts with label Source of Civil Power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Source of Civil Power. Show all posts
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Morality's Hold: Authority and Power

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T HE POET HORACE WROTE in one of his poems: Power without wisdom falls by its own weight: The gods themselves advance temperate power: And l...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

On God and Government: Yahweh Malak

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S CRIPTURE, WHETHER THE OLD COVENANT OR THE NEW, does not purport to be a political document, a political constitution. There is no normati...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Authority

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H OW IS IT THAT SOME LEGITIMATELY AND MORALLY claim to to have and exercise authority over others? And what is the extent, the boundaries b...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Magisterial Invocation of Natural Law: Leo XIII and Diuturnum Illud, Part 3

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C OMPLETING OUR REVIEW of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Diuturnum illud in this posting, we turn to Leo XIII's solutions. The rise o...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Magisterial Invocation of Natural Law: Leo XIII and Diuturnum Illud, Part 2

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C ONTINUING ON OUR REVIEW of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Diuturnum illud which addresses the origin of government, and rejects social co...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Magisterial Invocation of Natural Law: Leo XIII and Diuturnum Illud, Part 1

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T HE RICHNESS OF THE NATURAL LAW shown forth in the thought of Pope Leo XIII, who "even more than Pius IX, based his teaching on the la...