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    Authority in sacred matters belongs wholly to the soverei... — Carmelics
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    Authority in sacred matters belongs wholly to the sovereign powers

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    • 1.Religious law is realized through the will of the civil authority (Erastian position)
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    • 2.The sovereign is the sole civil and religious authority
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    • 1.Conscience and inner religious conviction fall outside the coercive reach of any external political authority (Locke, Letter Concerning Toleration).
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    • 2.Sovereign authority is legitimate only over external actions, not internal belief, making religious sovereignty structurally incoherent.
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    • 1.Ecclesiastical authority derives from a distinct source of legitimacy—divine mandate or communal covenant—irreducible to civil power (Bellarmine, De Potestate Summi Pontificis).
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    • 2.Where two distinct normative orders each claim supreme jurisdiction over the same domain, neither can wholly absorb the other without logical circularity.
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    However, since Scripture does have a positive socio-political function in promoting justice and charity, one might wonder how much authority the clergy has in public matters. Spinoza’s response is that “authority in sacred matters belongs wholly to the sovereign powers ” (Ch. 19, title). Like Hobbes, he embraces the Erastian position that religious law is realized through the will of the civil authority (TTP, Ch. 19). The crux of the single authority thesis is this: the sovereign is the sole ci
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