This has been the official position since the 1200s, the hardline approach is almost entirely a 19th century reaction, with some counter reformation elements.
Oh that’s fascinating. I’m only familiar (to the extent that I am) with the early and the modern history, plus all of that interesting stuff in the middle where they had popes assassinating people and such. But that part was so complex it makes Game of Thrones look like Horton Hears a Who, and I can barely keep any of it straight.
This has been the official position since the 1200s, the hardline approach is almost entirely a 19th century reaction, with some counter reformation elements.
Oh that’s fascinating. I’m only familiar (to the extent that I am) with the early and the modern history, plus all of that interesting stuff in the middle where they had popes assassinating people and such. But that part was so complex it makes Game of Thrones look like Horton Hears a Who, and I can barely keep any of it straight.
Yeah a lot of shit we think of as archaic is actually Victorian or around that. Particularly with Christianity