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Catholic Integralism

Summary

Catholic Integralism is the political-theological position that the temporal political order should be ordered toward and subordinated to the spiritual authority of the Catholic Church, drawing on pre-modern Catholic political theology against liberal separation of church and state.

Core Contribution

Provides the most radical Catholic critique of liberalism, arguing that the secular state is an inherently defective arrangement that must be transcended by integration of temporal and spiritual authority.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • integralism
  • Catholic political theology
  • post-liberalism
  • anti-liberalism

Historical Influences

Thomas Aquinas St. Augustine medieval papalism

Intellectual Lineage

Thomas Aquinas Pope Gelasius Imedieval Catholic political theologyPius X

Contemporaries & Peers

National conservatism post-liberalism

Minds Influenced

Sohrab Ahmari Chad Pecknold post-liberal Catholic thought

Intellectual Posterity

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