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Under Augustine's model, the Catholic Church offers rulers legitimacy, cultural cohesion, and cultural differentiation, allowing it to remain central across later power shifts.
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Under Augustine's model, the Catholic Church offers rulers legitimacy, cultural cohesion, and cultural differentiation, allowing it to remain central across later power shifts.
"...first is legitimacy. Why are you the king? The second is cultural cohesion. How do you unite the people behind a common ideology? The..."
A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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