Word: constantinian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church is in the midst of transition, attempting to plot a true and vigorous course through intellectual and social turbulence. Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger of Paderborn, one of Germany's most articulate advocates of change in the church, argues that Catholicism has finally come to the "end of the Constantinian era." In a world of permanent revolution, he argues, the church must think in universal terms and abandon a number of concepts that governed its past. Among these are the belief that the alliance of temporal and spiritual powers is "natural," the rigid juridical view of the church derived from...
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