Andrew W. Jones, Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX

Abstract The Sarang Global Ministry Center (SGMC) in Seoul, South Korea, is well known for its architectural design and for several controversies surrounding its construction. The SGMC does not have conventional Christian architectural features, such as a steeple or stone facade; instead, the church resembles a luxury department store. Reactions to this building have been mixed, reflecting differing opinions about Christianity in South Korea. Some value the fact that the building’s aesthetics blend Christian activities with everyday life outside the church. Others criticize the building’s corporate appearance, citing it as evidence that Sarang Church is “just a business.” While the way religion is permitted to operate in South Korean secular society is partially defined by legal principles, such as the separation of church and state and state neutrality toward religion, secularism also entails an active configuration of the social order through lived experience. Secularity both constitutes and is constituted by the materiality of religious space, which disputes over the SGMC design make clear. Considering varied responses to the SGMC building project, this article highlights how church architecture, city planning, and consumer capitalism participate in the shaping of Korean Protestant Christianity and how it manifests within South Korea’s secular social and political order.

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Once There Was No Church and State: Re-Envisioning the Social Order in Light of Thirteenth-Century History

Nova et vetera ◽

10.1353/nov.2020.0050 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 991-1015

Author(s):

Jeffrey L. Morrow

Keyword(s):

Thirteenth Century ◽

Social Order ◽

Church And State ◽

The Social

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God and Liberty?

Conscience and Conversion ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300226133.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas Kselman

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Church And State ◽

Civil Liberties ◽

The Political ◽

Freedom Of Conscience ◽

State Repression ◽

The Press ◽

The Right ◽

Order State ◽

Reliable Basis

This chapter examines the religious choices of Félicité Lamennais, a key figure in the political and religious debates of the French Restoration. After flirting with the doctrines of Rousseau as an adolescent, Lamennais converted to ultramontane Catholicism, convinced that papal authority was the only reliable basis for social order. State repression of Catholicism in Poland, Belgium, Ireland, and France in 1830 led Lamennais to alter his views and embrace a marriage of “God and Liberty” in which Catholics would support the separation of church and state, and defend political and civil liberties, in particular the freedom of the press. Twice condemned by Pope Gregory XVI, Lamennais abandoned Catholicism and embraced the right of freedom of conscience that he had formerly condemned.

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Authoritarianism and Public Opinion on Church and State in the United States

Politics and Religion ◽

10.1017/s1755048316000432 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 57-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jeremiah J. Castle

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Church And State ◽

Strong Support ◽

The United States ◽

Social Conformity ◽

Free Exercise ◽

Using Data ◽

Religious Establishment ◽

The Relationship

AbstractDespite the continued debate over the relationship between church and state in American politics, our understanding of the sources of attitudes on controversies over religious establishment and religious free exercise is limited. I argue that authoritarianism is an unrecognized but important predictor of mass-level attitudes on church and state. I argue that individuals with higher levels of authoritarianism are more likely to support religious establishment as a means of maintaining social conformity and reinforcing the existing social order. Likewise, those with higher levels of authoritarianism should exhibit reduced support for religious free exercise when minority groups are in question as a means of imposing greater costs on social out-groups. Using data from the 2008 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project, I find strong support for my theory. Even after controlling for a variety of alternative explanations, authoritarianism remains an important factor in attitudes toward both religious establishment and religious free exercise.

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The Idea of the Church as the Best Social Structure: F.M. Dostoevsky and V.S. Soloviev

RUDN Journal of Philosophy ◽

10.22363/2313-2302-2021-25-1-34-43 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 34-43

Author(s):

Elena V. Besschetnova

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Mutual Influence ◽

Church And State ◽

The Novel ◽

Christian Community ◽

Moral Improvement ◽

The Brothers Karamazov ◽

Brothers Karamazov ◽

The Church ◽

The Ideal

The article presents the reconstruction of the views of F.M. Dostoevsky and Vl.S. Solovyov on the nature of relations between church and state. A line of mutual influence of thinkers in the context of the perception of Christian truth is drawn. It is shown that Dostoevsky was impressed by a series of lectures by Solovyov's "Readings on God-manhood" and adopted from them the idea of the possibility of religious and moral improvement not only of an individual, but of society as a whole. The article shows that not without the Solovyov's influence Dostoevsky arrives at the Slavophil idea of sobornost and the impossibility of salvation outside of church communion, while speaking of the Church as an ecclesia, that is, an assembly of believers. The author of the article shows that the sophistic and mystical moments in the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" appear under direct influence on Dostoevsky's "Readings on God-manhood" and a joint trip of thinkers to the Optina Pustyn monastery. It is also noted that in the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" the idea was expressed about the gradual growth of the state into the truth of the Church. Solovyov continued this line within the framework of his project of free theocracy in the 1880s, developing the thought of F.M. Dostoevsky - about the Church as the best social order. At the same time, the article shows the principled position of both thinkers on opposing the ideal of socialism and the idea of the Christian community, within which the term "Russian socialism", formulated in the "Diary of a writer". The author shows that Solovyov in his work "Three speeches in memory of Dostoevsky" was the first to explain the term "Russian socialism" precisely through the concept of the Christian community.

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«ETERNAL PUNISHMENT» AS A REGULATOR OF ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISHMEN IN EARLY MODERN TIMES

Вестник Владикавказского научного центра ◽

10.23671/vnc.2019.1.27282 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

С.А. Васильева

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Intellectual History ◽

Social Order ◽

Church And State ◽

Main Task ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Modern Times ◽

Early Modern Times ◽

Civil Laws ◽

Eternal Punishment

В статье рассматриваются особенности религиозного сознания и мышления англичан раннего Нового времени, связанные с восприятием «вечного наказания». На основе текстов проповеднической публицистической литературы XVII–XVIII веков проанализированы представления, страхи и ожидания «вечного наказания», разделяемые как духовенством, так и мирянами. Методологическим ориентиром при анализе проповедей послужили принципы «новой культурно-интел- лектуальной истории», которая видит свою основную задачу в исследовании ин- теллектуальной деятельности и процессов в сфере гуманитарного, социального и естественно-научного знания в их конкретно-историческом социокультурном кон- тексте. В рассматриваемый период угроза «вечного наказания» и воздаяния по грехам была более эффектив- на, чем страх перед земным правосудием. Союз церкви и государства выражался в совмещении понятий «боже- ственное возмездие» и «уголовное наказание». Постоянная актуализация образа ада, истолкование природных явлений и эпидемических болезней в понятиях «предупреждения» и «возмездия» со стороны священнослужите- лей обеспечивали поддержание социального порядка и закладывали привычку к повиновению государственной власти. Англиканская вера отвергала учение о чистилище, проповедники последовательно проводили мысль о том, что верующие должны придерживаться такого образа жизни, который позволит достичь покаяния и исправления в течение земной жизни. Угроза «вечного наказания» для грешников обеспечивала относительное послушание гражданским законам. The article considers peculiarities of the religious consciousness and mentality of the Englishmen, associated with perception of the «Eternal punishment» in early modern times. Based on preaching sermons of XVII-XVIII centuries, the article analyses the perception, fears and expectations of «eternal punishment», shared by either clergy or laity. The principles of “the new cultural-intellectual history” served as a methodological orienting point in analyzing sermons, that sets as its main task the study of intellectual, social and scientifi c knowledge in their specifi cally-historical and sociocultural context. In the period under review, the threat of «Hell’s torments» and retribution for sins was more effective than the fear of “Earthjustice”. The Union of Church and State was refl ected in combination of the following concepts: «divine retribution» and «criminal punishment». The constant actualization of the image of Hell, the interpretation of natural phenomena and epidemic diseases in the concepts of «prevention» and «retribution» by the clergy ensured the maintenance of social order and develop a habit of obedience to the state power. The Anglican faith rejected the doctrine of purgatory; the preachers maintained the conviction that believers should follow such a way of life that would allow them to seek penance and rehabilitation during their mortal lives. The threat of «eternal punishment» for sinners provided the relative obedience to civil laws.

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