Churcn was transformed into a spiritual State, and the State into a kind of temporal Church. In a struggle between two great powers, the interests of one or the other become necessarily dominant. France, even daring the most brilliant period of the Gallican*... The London Quarterly Review - Page 3edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
| 1861 - 606 pages
...dominant. France, even during the most brilliant period of the Gallican Church, never attempted the raost feeble approximation to a pure theocracy : the interests...remained always the most powerful. But in its centralized adminis tration the uniform government was eager to avail itself of the assistance of the priests.... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...the other become necessarily dominant. France, even daring the most brilliant period of the Gallicaj? Church, never attempted the most feeble approximation...of the Church ; but this citadel was in the power pf the State. * France/ exclaims M. Dollfus, 'has been verging towards a triple Catholicism; a Catholicism... | |
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