Church and state

Wise cautions from de Lubac on any effort to ease the tensions that have historically existed between church and civil order: “We can without difficulty concede the point that whichever side the absorption were effected from, everything would become infinitely simpler and much more practicable – in theory, at any rate. The only question is, whether this simplicity is desirable, and whether so easy a life is really an ideal?”

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