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[1] [2] David Walsh, founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family, acknowledges that there is a "genuine tension ... between Christianity and the political order" that Rousseau was acknowledging, arguing that "many Christians would, after all, agree with him that a 'Christian republic' is a contradiction in terms" and that the two ...
Christianity gained prominence in Roman politics during the reign of Constantine the Great, who favored Christianity and legalized its practice in the empire in 313. [2] Christians were also appointed to government positions at this time. [3] In 380, Trinitarian Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by Theodosius I. [4]
A Christian state is a country that recognizes a form of Christianity as its official religion and often has a state church (also called an established church), [1] which is a Christian denomination that supports the government and is supported by the government.
"Christendom" has referred to the medieval and renaissance notion of the Christian world as a polity. In essence, the earliest vision of Christendom was a vision of a Christian theocracy, a government founded upon and upholding Christian values, whose institutions are spread through and over with Christian doctrine.
Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local ( congregational ) forms of organization as well as denominational . A church's polity may describe its ministerial offices or an authority structure between churches.
In medieval and early modern Western political thought, the respublica or res publica Christiana refers to the international community of Christian peoples and states. As a Latin phrase, res publica Christiana combines Christianity with the originally Roman idea of the res publica ("republic" or "commonwealth") to describe this community and its well-being.
Christianity is the predominant religion in Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and Sub-Saharan Africa. [1] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. [1]
A hypothetical Christian form of government in which society is ruled by divine law. [60] Theonomists hold that divine law, particularly the judicial laws of the Old Testament, should be observed by modern societies. [61] The chief architects of the movement are Gary North, Greg Bahnsen, and R.J. Rushdoony. [62] Magocracy