1st Edition
Church, State and Community: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
By Antony Black
Copyright 2003
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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Running through the papers collected here is the concern to try and understand the reasons which people thought they had for acting in a certain way, and - not always the same thing - the reasons which they expressed for what they were doing. The book's first section focuses on the theories of government in the late medieval Church, especially the ideas of conciliarism; the second is concerned... Read more
Contents: Preface; Conciliar Ideas: The political ideas of conciliarism and papalism, 1430-1450; What was conciliarism? Conciliar theory in historical perspective; The universities and the Council of Basle: ecclesiology and tactics; The universities and the Council of Basle: collegium and concilium; Diplomacy, doctrine and the disintegration of an idea into politics; Heimericus de Campo: the council and history; The realist ecclesiology of Heimerich van de Velde; Panormitanus on the Decretum; The Council of Basle and the second Vatican Council; Communal Ideas: Society and the individual from the Middle Ages to Rousseau: philosophy, jurisprudence and constitutional theory; Political languages in later medieval Europe; The juristic origins of social contract theory; The commune in political theory in the late Middle Ages; Communal democracy and its history; Harmony and strife in political thought c.1300-1500; Christianity and republicanism from St. Cyprian to Rousseau; Christianity and republicanism: a response to Nederman; Republicanism as a European phenomenon; Concepts of civil society in pre-modern Europe; Nation and community in the international order; The Comparative Study of Ideas: Individuals, groups and states: a comparative overview; Classical Islam and medieval Europe: a comparison of political philosophies and cultures; Islamic views of international order; Harmony versus conflict: biological and strategic paths to toleration; Decolonization of concepts; The history of political thought: a western patient; Index.
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Antony Black
