Political Alchemy

The shift with modern political theory, of course, is the abstraction of this universal theory of politics from any actual catholic political body. Modern political thought is left with the tension between universal ideal theories and the actual traditions and structures of particular nations. By what alchemy of abstraction does an argument for the supremacy of the Council over the Pope in the catholic church become a general argument for constitutionalism?

The Rev’d Dr. Peter Leithart

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