The modern view is that the suppression of the order was the result of a series of political and economic conflicts rather than a theological controversy, and the assertion of nation-state independence against the Catholic Church.
Pandangan modern melihat penindasan ini sebagai hasil serangkaian konflik politik ekonomi bukannya kontroversi teologis, dan sebagai pernyataan kemerdekaan negara-negara melawan Gereja Katolik.