---
title: 'Five Theories of the Church'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Leonard Woolsey Bacon'
date: 1895-09-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Church-State Relations'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Numbers 16'
- 'Romans 13'
- 'Matthew 16'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/bacon-1895-five-theories-of-the-church
---

# Five Theories of the Church

Surveys five theories of church and state—papal, Bourbon, formal, Jacobin, and rational/scriptural—evaluating origins and legitimacy of ecclesiastical authority in early New Haven.

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