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What is the Church, psychologically viewed? The Church is: 1. A school of the Christian spirit. That is her first task in the world. She is the Body of Christ. That is her official and physical determination her firm, her name. She is the living Christ Himself, i.e. That is her ideal, her end, her Horeb. What is the Church, sociologically viewed? The Church is: 1. A Theocracy.
Permit me to call attention particularly to an important parallelism between the government of Israel under the theocracy and the government of the New Testament church before the rise of ecclesiasticism. God led his people out of Egypt by Moses and Joshua. These men are a type of Christ, who leads his people.
Thomas Becket were left a riddle for history; the white flame of his audacious theocracy was frustrated, and his work cut short like a fairy tale left untold. But his memory passed into the care of the common people, and with them he was more active dead than alive yes, even more busy.
The truncated Church, no longer 'universal, found itself obliged to continue the same policy of centralisation, and with such success that, under Innocent III, the triumph of the theocracy seemed complete. The Papacy dominated Europe de facto, and claimed to rule the world de jure.
Nor did it disdain literature or art, or any form of modern civilization, but sought to combine progress with old ideas; it was an effort to adapt the Roman theocracy to changing circumstances, and was marked by expediency rather than right, by zeal rather than a profound philosophy.
It has been pretended that M. Lamennais, preaching now a theocracy, now universal democracy, has been always consistent; that, under different names, he has sought invariably one and the same thing, unity. Pitiful excuse for an author surprised in the very act of contradiction!
From John Winthrop, who was the first, an almost unbroken line of these redoubtable partisans stretched down to the Revolution, where it ended with him who is perhaps the most celebrated of all. Samuel Adams has been called the last of the Puritans. He was indeed the incarnation of those qualities which led to eminence under the theocracy.
But it may also be deduced as a philosophical necessity from the Idea of Individualism, which became the core of the Federal Union. This idea, at first suggested only for men, has, little by little, spread to women also." Individualism, in the sense of personal moral responsibility, became the core, first of the Hebrew Theocracy, and last of the American National life.
We conclude then, that Christ in describing himself as a king, and at the same time as king of the Kingdom of God in other words as a king representing the Majesty of the Invisible King of a theocracy claimed the character first of Founder, next of Legislator; thirdly, in a certain high and peculiar sense, of Judge, of a new divine society.
The selfish and cruel policy of the theocracy had borne its natural fruit: without an ally in the world, Massachusetts was beset by enemies. Chalmers's Annals, pp. 396, 397. Charles had intended to settle Maine on the Duke of Monmouth.
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