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A 3 page paper which examines the conditions
of church and state in the Petrine Supremacy. Text used is Jackson J. Spielvogel’s
“Western Civilization.” No additional sources cited.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RApetrin.rtf
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Peter, St. Peter, who was the first bishop of Rome. He is said to be the rock upon which the church was founded and the Petrine supremacy doctrine relates to
Rome being the home of any such religious dealings. This is why the pope comes from Rome and why the pope must have been a bishop of Rome. While this
may seem somewhat pointless today it is a very strong doctrine that has ruled Western civilization, in good and bad developments. The following paper examines Jackson J. Spielvogels text "Western
Civilization" as it involves change regarding church and state in the Western world during medieval times. Church and State Spielvogel tells us that "The period that saw the
disintegration of the western part of the Roman Empire also witnessed the emergence of medieval civilization...The early medieval that arose out of the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire was
formed by the coalescence of three major elements: the Germanic peoples who moved into the western empire and established new kingdoms, the continuing attraction of the Greco-Roman cultural legacy, and
the Christian church" (162). These forces indicate that the change was great, that Rome still help some power, and that Christianity, or the church, was to hold a great deal
of power and influence as change came to the western civilization(s). Within each region discussed by Spielvogel we see different approaches to Christianity, or the church, and thus we
see where the church needed to make allowances for the state, so to speak. For example, we see the Irish pursuing their own unique approach to Christianity, having monks and
adhering to the laws of God in a way that was different from the Roman way. We see that the monks were great believers in education, something that the Roman
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