Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power

Author: René Guénon
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
ISBN: 9780900588471
Category : Authority
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power is an analysis of cyclical manifestation, and more specifically of the relationship between royal and sacerdotal power. In accord with the Hindu doctrine of manvantaras and Plato's depiction of historical degeneration in the Republic, Guénon views history here as a series of 'revolts' of lower castes against the higher. The kshatriyas (warriors) revolt against the brahmins (priests), thus setting the stage for a revolt of the vaishyas (loosely, the bourgeoisie), as in the French revolution-and, finally, the shudras (the proletariat), as in the Russian revolution (which Guénon does not touch upon in this work). From one point of view, this is a progressive degeneration; from another it is entirely lawful, given the 'entropic' nature of manifestation itself. External, historical descent reflects an inner degeneration: knowledge (the celestial paradise) is eclipsed by heroic action (the terrestrial paradise), which is in turn overrun by the inertia and agitation of the passions. Yet the nadir of degeneration is also the point of renewal: the dawning of the Heavenly Jerusalem-spiritual Knowledge-which begins a new cycle of manifestation.

Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power

Author: René Guénon
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
ISBN: 9780900588464
Category : Authority
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Deals with the normal relationship between the spiritual and the temporal powers implied in a healthy traditional civilization, that is, the supremacy of knowledge over action, of the sacerdotal over the royal caste. Touching first on India and the medieval West, Guenon then illustrates his point by citing quarrels over investiture and disputes of certain French kingswith the papacy as evidence of a deviation in Christianity.

Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government

Author: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258141950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
Additional Editor Is George A. Kennedy. American Oriental Series, V22.

On Temporal and Spiritual Authority

Author: Saint Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino
Publisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780865977167
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Robert Bellarmine was one of the most original and influential political theorists of his time. His writings present coherent definitions of the nature and aim of temporal authority and its relationship to spiritual authority. This fresh translation will be interesting to a wide readership of both scholars of political thought and the educated general public. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) was a Jesuit cardinal. Stefania Tutino is a Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

Spiritual Authority

Author: Watchman Nee
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Publishers
ISBN: 0935008357
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
The chapters in this volume on the nature of Spiritual Authority are drawn from a series of messages delivered by the great Chinese preacher-teacher, Watchman Nee, during a training period for Christian workers in China in 1948.

The Power of the Popes

Author: Pierre Claude François Daunou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Papacy
Languages : la
Pages : 726

Book Description

I Give You Authority

Author: Charles H. Kraft
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 0800795245
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Fully revised and updated, this handbook shows readers how to exercise authority in the spiritual realm, providing protection for themselves and others and transforming lives.

On Royal and Papal Power

Author: John (of Paris)
Publisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888442581
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
A treatise concerning papal powers and rights in the politics and temporal affairs of France, written during the clash between King Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface III. -- p. 11.

Your Spiritual Authority

Author: Charles Capps
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982032046
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In Your Spiritual Authority Capps focuses his teaching on the believers identity in Christ. Readers will learn that the name of Jesus gives believers authority in three worldsbeings in earth, beings under the earth, and beings in heaven. God has restored the believers authority in the earth through the rebirth of the human spirit and has given back that which Satan stole from Adam. This newly packaged version of this breakthrough teaching will unleash new life and faith in the lives of believers.

The Politics of the Real

Author: D. C. Schindler
Publisher: New Polity Press
ISBN: 1736506617
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 421

Book Description
Schindler shows that liberalism is wrong, not because it has simply “relegated God to the private,” but because it has inverted the world: giving us power without authority, in what becomes a closed, necessarily totalitarian, horizon. Here, nothing else can be done with the transcendent God but to find a quiet little place to keep him, harmless and out of the way. When we let God out, a cosmic hierarchy of act—of participation in Being Himself—explodes into view. And this changes everything. A true integralism, a true postliberalism, moves politics back into a cosmos that is itself analogically ordered to participation in the life of God. With The Politics of the Real, Schindler has elevated the postliberal conversation. — Andrew Willard Jones Director of Catholic Studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville and author of Before Church and State