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Vatican Prerogatives, the Papal Presidency, and US Grand Strategy: Convergent Structures of Folly and Deceit |
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One of the paradoxes of revolutions is that they so frequently disclose their consequences as the opposite of what was originally intended when the struggle against the old regime was undertaken: the Protestant Reformation, for example, began as a religious overturning and yet over time generated both secularism and a scientific revolution antithetical to the beliefs of those who effected it. This paper argues that a similar inversion has taken place in the United States and, while it is evident in the current Bush administration, it was in the ascendant long before 2001. Thus, it will be argued that the increasing willingness of successive Administrations to adopt prerogatives inimical to a republic and more closely identified with the worst excesses of the romanita -- the confessional imperialism of Rome -- by legislation, admonition, and fiat -- sustained throughout by magisterium, auctoritas, potestas -- the office, the authority, and the power to use them both. In terms of a broader political and social understanding, however, it is a form of atavism, a re inscription of an ancient habit of prescribing a juridical solution to every human dilemma, and then stamping every solution with a sacred character under the seal of the magisterium. By any comprehension it is a return to rule by a form of political absolutism. Accordingly, it raises questions of the most serious nature for contemporary and future global political dynamics. |
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Name: International Studies Association
URL: http://www.isanet.org
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MLA Citation:
| McKinley, Michael. "Vatican Prerogatives, the Papal Presidency, and US Grand Strategy: Convergent Structures of Folly and Deceit" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p72105_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| McKinley, M. , 2005-03-05 "Vatican Prerogatives, the Papal Presidency, and US Grand Strategy: Convergent Structures of Folly and Deceit" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p72105_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: One of the paradoxes of revolutions is that they so frequently disclose their consequences as the opposite of what was originally intended when the struggle against the old regime was undertaken: the Protestant Reformation, for example, began as a religious overturning and yet over time generated both secularism and a scientific revolution antithetical to the beliefs of those who effected it. This paper argues that a similar inversion has taken place in the United States and, while it is evident in the current Bush administration, it was in the ascendant long before 2001. Thus, it will be argued that the increasing willingness of successive Administrations to adopt prerogatives inimical to a republic and more closely identified with the worst excesses of the romanita -- the confessional imperialism of Rome -- by legislation, admonition, and fiat -- sustained throughout by magisterium, auctoritas, potestas -- the office, the authority, and the power to use them both. In terms of a broader political and social understanding, however, it is a form of atavism, a re inscription of an ancient habit of prescribing a juridical solution to every human dilemma, and then stamping every solution with a sacred character under the seal of the magisterium. By any comprehension it is a return to rule by a form of political absolutism. Accordingly, it raises questions of the most serious nature for contemporary and future global political dynamics. |
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