Thomas Erastus
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Thomas Erastus was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians should be punished by the State, and that the Church should
by Tobias Stimmer, 1582
Caesaropapism
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Caesaropapism is the idea of blending the social and political power of secular government with religious power, or of making secular authority superior to the spiritual authority of the Church, espec
Thomas Erastus
…acquired a more general meaning and came to refer to the view that the state should have supremacy over the church in ecclesiastical matters (cf. Caesaropapism). According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "The Theses and Confirmatio thesium appeared together in 1589. The central question about which the "Theses…
A small cross of gold sheet, with rubbings of coins of Justin II (emperor in 565–574) and holes for nails or thread, Italian, 6th century
Icon depicting the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (centre) and the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325) holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.
The Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy combines Western and Byzantine elements.
Henry VIII (c. 1531)