
Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX (Andrew Willard Jones)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Religious Pluralism and Human Frustration
Human flourishing requires both a virtuous society and some degree of focus on external acts of heroic daring. Not even saint louis would have endorsed that idea, much less charlemagne. The answer is probably to have a strong, augustine style state which will seek the common good in a realistic degree of virtue and flourishing. But freedom of religious exercise for all will be allowed to the extent not actually in contradiction with those standards.
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