Res publica christiana

Res publica Christiana is a Latin phrase combining the idea of res publica and Christiana to describe the worldwide community of Christianity and its well-being. A single English word with somewhat comparable meaning is Christendom; it is also translated as "The Christian Commonwealth".[1] This phrase is notably found in the encyclical Christianae Republicae Salus, a Roman Catholic Church document which condemns Voltairian and masonic indifferentism in matters of religion.

According to Nolan (2006), Europe ceased being a res publica Christiana due to the 16th- and 17th-century wars of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and became a "state system" with a sharp separation of church and state.[1] The principle of cuius regio, eius religio ("whose realm, his religion"), first formulated at the Peace of Augsburg (1555), was confirmed at the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which gave secular states sovereignty over religions, and rejected any supranational religious authority.[1]

References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 Nolan 2006, p. 710.

Bibliography

Nolan, Cathal J. (2006). The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000–1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. 2. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33734-5.

Further reading

Almeida, João Marques de. "The Peace of Westphalia and the Idea of Respublica Christiana". Lisbon: Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais. Archived from the original on 7 January 2007. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
Manselli, Raoul (1965). "La res publica cristiana e l'Islam". In Gabrieli, Francesco; et al. L'Occidente e l'Islam nell'alto Medioevo. Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo (in Italian). 12. Spoleto, Italy: Presso la sede del Centro.
Osiander, Andreas (2007). Before the State: Systemic Political Change in the West from the Greeks to the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198294511.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-829451-1.
Ristuccia, Nathan J. (2018). Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe: A Ritual Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198810209.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-881020-9.
Vismara, Giulio (1974). Impium foedus: le origini della respublica christiana (in Italian). Milan: A. Giuffrè. OCLC 2715277.


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