tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post6308706636483685040..comments2024-03-17T08:25:33.806+00:00Comments on Thoughts of Francis Turretin: Separation of Religion and PoliticsTurretinfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-43038918611921066932008-10-29T01:48:00.000+00:002008-10-29T01:48:00.000+00:00Dear Ben,Distinction is a broader term, to be sure...Dear Ben,<BR/><BR/>Distinction is a broader term, to be sure, and one with greater historical support. Benedict's words, however, go beyond the broad sense of the word, when he speaks of the "autonomy" of the two institutions.<BR/><BR/>I recall to your mind the popes around the time of the Great Schism between Constantinople and Rome, and their forrays into politics, such as those discussed fromTurretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-65069552534875172072008-10-29T00:41:00.000+00:002008-10-29T00:41:00.000+00:00Dear Francis,The Pope refers to the "distinction b...Dear Francis,<BR/><BR/>The Pope refers to the "distinction between" Church and state, which is different from the "separation of" Church and state. The distinction between Church and state is nothing new in Catholic theology. Read some of Leo XIII's encyclicals, such as <I>Immortale Dei</I>, for example. The same distinction is drawn very clearly by Dante in his prose, and even in the Divine Ben Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12251222044837915281noreply@blogger.com