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title: 'Nature and Limitations of the Authority of the Church'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'Richard Clark Reed'
date: 1916-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Church-State Relations'
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
scriptures:
- 'John 18'
- 'Romans 13'
- 'Exodus 20'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/reed-1916-nature-and-limitations-of-the-authority-of-the-church
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# Nature and Limitations of the Authority of the Church

Argues for a clear separation of church and state, surveying abuses from Constantine and the Inquisition to European Erastianism, and noting America's constitutional solution.

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