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Sources of Conflict Between Church and State in Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Frank Dinka
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THE relations between the Church and State have been for many years the subject of interest to the political theorist, the student of contemporary totalitarian movements, and of particular concern to the student of comparative political institutions and systems. To the student of political theory it invokes the old conflict between the spiritual and the temporal authorities, between the papal authority and the claim of the emerging national states. For the student of modern totalitarianism it raises, without answering, the crucial question of the extent to which a totalitarian system can tolerate competing ideologies within the same national community. Finally, for the student of comparative institutions, in certain circumstances (for example, in Poland), it presents certain features of uniqueness that call for explanation.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 1966 , pp. 332 - 349
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1966

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