Sentences with phrase «secular arm of the state»
Having rejected the authority of the Church as the glue holding together Christendom, Protestantism was ineluctably drawn to the force of military might, to using the secular arm of the state as the source for order and unity.
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The emperor was declared «outside bishop,» and the state became the secular arm carrying out the decisions of the church.