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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"...first is legitimacy. Why are you the king? The second is cultural cohesion. How do you unite the people behind a common ideology? The..."
"...America's war on terror. But the Europeans feel as though their cultural cohesion is under threat from these refugees. And response is European governments..."
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