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The Catholic Church’s claim to rule salvation rather than territory, making it an empire outside history.
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spiritual empire
The Catholic Church’s claim to rule salvation rather than territory, making it an empire outside history.
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The Catholic Church gains power by claiming to be a spiritual empire outside history: kings rule earth, but the church decides heaven.
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"...say that they are the empire now, but they are a spiritual empire. A divine empire that is out of history and which speaks..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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