The Power of Kings
Monod, Paul Kléber
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...The midcentury efforts at estab- cy to ramble, to pick up ideas and then cred portion of the monarch...
...Why did all of priesthood...
...In Hassler's Dear James, cies as the modern world emerged, but monarchs as the servants of faith...
...Still, it sorts out and explains the conflicts that offers an engaging meditation on the rage in the American Church...
...A Reflection on the Priest's Crisis of Soul Monod never directly treats critical "...artistically paints the very soul of the questions of causation...
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...Monod's book is an important one for lustrations, and the reader is occasionThroughout the seventeenth century, all those interested in questions of the na- ally left wondering just how some set of Monod suggests, kings attempted to find ture of political authority or in early mod- events supports Monod's views...
...At points, the theory beimage of the king with the idea of the at the center...
...Kingwhen a neighbor gets access to the let- that there was a gradual trend toward ly divinity was under attack from all ters of the marvelous Agatha McGee, he the rationalization of the role of the sides...
...It reads almost too much In his new book, Paul Kleber Monod, tant...
...t ti c-I t.l ~ , i in a Divided Church questions about the connection between "With skill and sympathy, Father Rausch faith and the state as it answers...
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...Rationalized just how these ideas fit into the overall Bodin attempted to replace the mystical states remained with humanized kings framework...
...And will there be anoth- power across Europe...
...The argument is sometimes diffialism was an effort to strengthen the of Thomas Hobbes's social contract the- cult to follow...
...We know in Europe, 1589-1715 communal life came under new forms that after his early success with Stag- Paul Kleber Monod of governmental regulation...
...Clearly, it is committees...
...The rationalization of monarchy was a and Grand Opening, Hassler's novels trend that took varied forms...
...It was, in the Fronde posed a smaller, but still sig- governments have become progressiveMonod's view, an effort to represent the nificant danger for the French monarchy...
...For example, the middle of the century, religious crises cause it points out that religious belief Monod interprets Giuseppe Arcimbol- around Europe threatened the very ex- has played a complicated and subtle part do's famous painting of Emperor Rudolf istence of monarchy...
...on Values in Literature...
...gerford, Simon's Night, The Love Hunter, Yale university Press, $35,417 pp...
...The divine monarchs of the of Weber, traditional authority does not Staggerford...
...Monod's went out of print...
...Sin and For readers familiar with Hassler's The Power of Kings salvation became matters of private and career, there is a bitter sweetness in fin- Monarchy and Religion individual concern, while political and ishing My Staggerford Journal...
...Instead, religious beliefs underpublic...
...England actually in the rationalization of modern states...
...Drawing on art history, literature, glowing reviews, book tours, and an en- ization of political systems and political philosophy, Monod probes dowed professorship at Saint John's I is essentially a movement the changes in the social role of royalty University in Collegeville...
...Expected to uphold the historians can manage the intellectual Throughout Europe, princes and their religious and moral principles of Christ- and geographical range of this work, and advisors sought to find new ideological ian communities publicly, royalty took the interpretations are inventive and stimbases for rule in response to the weak- on a new theatricality and ceremony...
...He argues that Reformation Catholicism sought to reer installment that takes us through the kings were not replaced by bureaucra- turn the sacred to the church, recasting '80s and beyond...
...Henry of Navarre, who was then Protesa "selection...
...in the 1980s, with a new publisher and While he devotes the greatest attention insistent fans, he and his novels once Carl L. Bankston III to England, France, and Spain, he also again came to prominence...
...ually replaces the personal power of sa- France in 1589...
...the ruler: The sovereign is composed of Kings emerged from the seventeenth- Despite the clear value of The Power of a mortal "body natural" and a "body century crisis as secular guarantors of Kings, there are a few problems with the politic" identified with the state...
...In Elizabethan Other nations of Europe also saw a new helped to shape the modem bureaucratand Jacobean England, jurists developed tendency to identify the people of nations ic state by posing questions about the the concept of the "two bodies" to an- directly with God, and not with the me- proper relationship between worldly auswer questions about the divine nature of diating image of a sacred king...
...And a revised stage version of Grand Opening will be presented this month at the unveiling of the Jon Hassler Theater in his hometown of Plainview, Minnesota...
...The Catholic League opMy Staggerford Journal leaves us with cred individuals...
...Of those "perhaps thirty who has previously specialized in the friar, highlighted a European crisis renotebooks" that Hassler describes "lying political history of England after 1688, garding the body of the king...
...By the early mined the sacred character of monarchy, Despite an ongoing struggle with eighteenth century, though, kings were so that the reorganization of government Parkinson's disease, Hassler continues to write...
...thority and the sacred...
...Commonweal 2 5 June 2, 2000 along bureaucratic lines can be seen as new roles for themselves to answer reli- ern cultural and religious history...
...The author has a tendenmystical monarchy by defining the sa- ory...
...Hassler has also published two comic authority...
...In September 1976 he records with exaltation, "I have human symbols of national identity, sold, ten days apart, two novels...
...After a few more entries we learn that an earlier young-adult tale MONARCHY'S CHANGED FACE of suspense, Four Miles to Pinecone, is likely to be published...
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...Eugene F. Hemrick, Europe seem to go through a similar Syndicated Columnist, Catholic News Service process of religious challenge and po0-8146-2504-5 Paper,168 pp., 6 x 9, $14.95 litical rationalization during this periwww.cata log...
...But we also know that history takes him around most of Europe...
...The French civil wars of Religion has not simply gone away as bles as one such strategy...
...borrowed from Christianity...
...In this intriguing reinterpretation is shocked by their candid portraits of monarch...
...He is working on a book for Loyola Press of Chicago titled On Goodness: Sketches from a Novelist's Life...
...A new novel is also in the works, tentatively titled Agatha at Eighty...
...Moreover, the heavily interpretive character of the work can be frustrating...
...In France, lishing mystical nation-states along drop them without making it evident the lawyer and political theorist Jean confessional lines failed...
...Protesaround my den," how many parts of attempts an ambitious Weberian inter- tantism challenged sacred kingship by how many notebooks went into My Stag- pretation of the transformation of royal demystifying the royal body...
...Since then from traditional authority to rational with an impressive variety of sources...
...The book is especially useful beening of divine monarchy...
...Reconciling Faith and Reason The Power of Kings raises as many Apologists, Evangelists, and Theologians R F...
...A Green jour- looks at the lands of the Holy Roman Emney became a TV special, and Dear James n the political sociology of pire, Russia, Poland, Sweden, and Denand North of Hope were followed by Max Weber, the modern- mark...
...PRESS Carl L. Bankston III teaches sociology at Tulane University...
...1-1 Ed Block is professor of English at Marquette "It's not emperor-worship per se that we object to--University and editor of Renascence: Essays it's mandated emperor-worship...
...coming-of-age story of a part-Native American girl...
...Kings give way to posed Henry III for accepting as his heir some tantalizing questions...
...Commonweal 26 June 2, 2000...
...comes lost in the detailed historical ilking as a father figure...
...Did the pressures of changing reliAlso by Donald B. Cozzens, Editor gious ideas produce the rationalization The Spirituality of the Diocesan priest of the state or were both political and 0-8146-2421-9 Paper, 208 pp., 6 x 9, $14.95 religious shifts symptoms of the emergence of market economies or improved Thomas P Rausch, 51 systems of communication...
...II as an assemblage of fruits and vegeta- executed its king...
...Few having its roots in religion...
Vol. 127 • June 2000 • No. 11
