The Dead Hand
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lea, Henry Charles) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Dead Hand: A Brief Sketch of the Relations Between Church and State, With Regard to Ecclesiastical Property and the Religious Orders Important questions will soon arise as to the destiny of the large bodies of ecclesiastical property in the Philippines and of the religious orders which form a disturbing element in the social organization of the islands. It, therefore, is not without interest to examine how similar problems have been dealt with by Catholic powers. The control which the Church exercises over the hopes and fears of the sinner, especially on the death-bed, and the teaching, amply warranted by Scripture, that well-directed almsgiving is the best antidote for sin, has given it in all ages an unequalled opportunity for acquisition. Moreover, whatever it acquired it retained. It held in mortmain - in the Dead Hand - and its possessions were inalienable: Pope Symmachus declared that even the pope could not sell the property of the Church. The danger of this to the State was recognized at an early period, and laws of the Christian emperors in 370, 372, and 390 prohibited legacies to churches and clerics and pronounced them invalid - provisions which St. Ambrose and St. Jerome approved, while deploring their necessity and the artifices employed by clerics to nullify them. When Charlemagne endeavored to reconstruct society after the Barbarian invasions he too sought to diminish the evil, and, in 811, he asked his assembled bishops whether renunciation of the world is exhibited by those who were constantly seeking to augment their possessions by exploiting the hope of heaven and the fear of hell and inducing men to disinherit their heirs. His rebuke was unheeded, and in 816 his son, Louis the Pious, decreed that no cleric should receive donations from those whose children would thus be disinherited; anyone so doing should be punished and the property be restored to the heirs. During the succeeding centuries the process continued with increasing momentum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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