The theological-political origins of the modern state
Subtitle: the controversy between James I of England and Cardinal Bellarmine
By: Bernard Bourdin ; translated by Susan Pickford
Contributors: Pickford, Susan
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780813217918
Work titles: Genèse théologico-politique de l'Etat moderne
Description: "Contemporary Understanding of the modern state is so bound up with the development of liberal democracy that it may appear anachronistic to identify the origins of the modern state in a theological-political configuration of events. Yet in European history, the sovereignty of the people arose from the divine delegation of royal sovereignty to the temporal and spiritual ordersa︣ theory that the Holy See could not countenance. The controversy that erupted between James I of England and Cardinal Bellarmine following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 is a striking illustration of this political and ecclesiological dispute over who ultimately holds absolute sovereignty by divine right the king or the pope?" "In this work, Bernard Bourdin clearly sets forth the political thought and theology of James I as an early intellectual foundation for the modern state. He offers a comprehensive examination of James's intense dispute with Bellarmine, a controversy that sent shock waves throughout Europe and had a lasting impact on the rise of the modern state." "Susan Pickford is associate professor of translation at the University of Paris 13."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Originally published as La genèse théologico-politique de l'Etat moderne by Les Presses Universitaires de France, 2004"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ecclesiastical and political implications of royal supremacy over the Church of England; title: James I's interpretation of royal sovereignty in conflict with the Presbyterian Church; title: King James' ecclesiastical policy and the theologico-political concept of tolerance; title: Bellarmine's theory of the indirect temporal power of the papacy : a political ecclesiology; title: James VI of Scotland's trew law of free monarchies : a theologico-political hermeneutics of scripture; title: The apologie for the oath of allegiance in the context of James I's ecclesiological beliefs and the controversy with Cardinal Bellarmine's papal theory.