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Theological Concepts of Magistracy: A Study of Constantinus, Henry VIII, and John F. Kennedy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Charles J. Speel II
Charles J. Speel II
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Monmouth College, Monmouth, Ill.
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As we move in this study from Constantius to Henry VIII to John Fitzgerald Kennedy we move in Christian doctrine from heresy to orthodoxy to “American” Catholicism, and in Church-State relations from domination to manipulation to separation or from a form of Caesaro-Papism to Lay State regalism to Lay State separatism of the American type. An important key to understanding these shifts or changes is to be found in a study of the Magistrate's theological conception of the magistrate's office.

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Church History , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 1963 , pp. 130 - 149
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1963

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