Principle and Prudence: Two Shrines, Two Revolutions, and Two Traditions of Religious Liberty Principle and Prudence: Two Shrines, Two Revolutions, and Two Traditions of Religious Liberty

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Author	Ballor, Jordan J.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	One of the charges often leveled against the Protestant Reformation is that it essentially continued, and on some accounts exacerbated, fundamental problems with the received medieval models of the relationship between church and state. As Lord Acton put it memorably , " From the death of St. Bernard until the appearance of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, there was hardly a writer who did not make his politics subservient to the interest of either Pope or King. " There was nothing approaching a modern doctrine of religious liberty in the views of the major Protestant and Roman Catholic traditions of the sixteenth century. The reformer Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563), himself a source for what would come to be known as an Erastian theory of government, described two basic options concerning religious freedom. The first view is identified with the church father Tertullian, and recognizes the fundamental freedom required by true worship. Piety is viewed as, to a significant degree, a matter of internal orientation to God, which cannot be coerced, and therefore is not a matter of concern for the civil magistrate. The second option, however, argues that it is the responsibility of the authorities to uphold both
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