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Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom — John Shaqi

Church and State as Seen in the Formation of ChristendomAllies, T. W. (Thomas William)

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Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom

Name: Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom
Author: Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

Church and state; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Religion and state

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CHURCH AND STATE AS SEEN IN THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOM.

by

T. W. ALLIES, M.A.

Author of
"Per Crucem ad Lucem, The Result of a Life,"
"A Life's Decision," "Journal in France and Letters from Italy,"
"The Formation of Christendom," etc.







London: Burns and Oates.
1882.




TABLE OF CONTENTS.




  PROLOGUE.

                                                                   PAGE
  THE KINGDOM AS PROPHESIED AND AS FULFILLED,                       xix




  CHAPTER I.

  RELATION BETWEEN THE CIVIL AND THE SPIRITUAL POWERS FROM ADAM
          TO CHRIST.


  1. _The Divine and the Human Society, founded in Adam, refounded
          in Noah._

  The origin of man, of woman, of marriage, and of the human family,  1
  Archetypal character of the fact that man is created a Race,        3
  Sole creation of Adam in the maturity of thought and speech and
          the perfection of knowledge, as shown in the naming of
          creatures,                                                  4
  Subsequent building of woman from man,                              5
  The divine Image and Likeness in the individual man,                5
  A further Image of the ever-blessed Trinity in the Race,            6
  Indication of the Headship and the Passion of Christ in the
          original creation,                                          8
  Beauty and splendour of the divine plan,                            9
  The part in the divine plan which belongs to man's free-will,      10
  The divine treatment of man as a Race not broken by the Fall,      11
  Adam after the Fall the head of the civil and the religious
          order,                                                     12
  Bearing of man's condition before the Fall upon his subsequent
          state,                                                     13
  Adam receives in a great promise a disclosure of the future,       14
  He becomes the Teacher and likewise the Priest of his Race,        15
  The rite of sacrifice,                                             15
  Triple dignity of Adam in this first society,                      16
  Man breaks up this society by the misuse of his free-will,         17
  Resumption of the unity of the Race and its reparation in Noah,    18
  Condition of man, individual and collective, at this new beginning
          of the race; marriage and sacrifice,                       19
  Express establishment of civil government by divine authority,     20
  Union of religion with civil government from the beginning,        21

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