Author: Heinrich Geffcken

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-22

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780483614659

Excerpt from Church and State, Their Relations, Vol. 1 of 2: Historically Developed Considering the importance of this question at the present time, it appeared to me well worth the labour to retrace the stages through which this grand historical pro cess has run; and from this outline and endeavour the present. Work has grown. Its object is ecclesiastico political - to present, in short, an historical guide-book for the problems of the present day. I am fully aware that the attempt. To compress within a small compass a subject so vast and multifarious can be nothing more than an attempt and I shall be grateful to criticism for every kind of correction and supplementary material. The nature of the subject rendered it imperative that I should examine, in conclusion, our own position in Germany. I have considered the resolution of the Prussian Government to regulate anew the relations of Church and State to be not only right but necessary. But from the first moment when that resolution came to be executed, my convictions led me to perceive a fatal mistake in the manner in which this was done. The reasons for this conviction I have endeavoured to state in the last section. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.