Andrew Willard Jones, "The Church Against the State"
English | ISBN: 1736506633 | 2025 | 321 pages | PDF | 13 MB
The Church sees the world as God's good and harmonious Creation, a primordial peace.
As Europe began to abandon the Church in the early modern period, it left this vision behind. The new societies it built presupposed primordial competition and fear instead. Order could be secured only by centralized, monopolized power that recognized no higher authority. Theorists of the time called this new conception of power "sovereignty" and the new Leviathan government it required "the state."
For centuries now, we have lived in systems like this as fish live in water. We use "the state" as a simple synonym for "government," and even Christians are tempted to take the logic of sovereignty for the way the world is. But the Church has never ceased to preach "subsidiarity": real, natural distribution of power. She has never ceased to preach the goodness of Creation-or the reality of grace, renewing bonds of love.
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