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Excerpt from The Power of the Pope During the Middle Ages, Vol. 2: Or, Historical Inquiry Into the Origin of the Temporal Power of the Holy See, and the Constitutional Laws of the Middle Ages Relating to the Deposition of Sovereigns
The difficulty of accounting for so prodigious a power has given rise, in these latter times, to the most contradictory theories, both among Catholic and heretical authors. These theories may all be reduced to two classes, the first of which may be called theological, because they examine the difficulty principally in a theological view, that is, according to the prin ciples of revelation and of divine right; the second are the historical, because they examine the question chie?y in its historical view, that is, according to positive human laws, accord ing to the principles of legislation then in force, and according to some considerations founded on the condition and exigencies of society in the middle ages.
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