Stahl

Excerpts from the work of Friedrich Julius Stahl

Stahl on the Ethical Kingdom

Stahl on the Ethical Kingdom

Here Stahl introduces his concept of the ethical kingdom, a useful framework with which to view human society. This personal-legal framework is an expression of convenantalism, without that term being used. Through this lens human society comes into view...
Stahl on the State as Ethical Kingdom

Stahl on the State as Ethical Kingdom

Here Stahl situates the state within the larger context of the ethical kingdom, rescuing it from various notions by which it either is divorced from the kingdom of God in various secular iterations, or made into a direct expression of the kingdom of...
Stahl on the Two Principles of State Order

Stahl on the Two Principles of State Order

Assuming  the rightness of the critique provided by anti-revolutionary thinkers such as Groen van Prinsterer , what then should be the result? Obviously, by the nature of the case, Christians, being anti-revolutionaries (whether Rousseauian or Jeffersonian:...
Stahl on the Monarchical Principle

Stahl on the Monarchical Principle

Taken from chapter twelve of Friedrich Julius Stahl, The Doctrine of State & the Principles of State Law  (WordBridge Publishing), pp. 275-314. The Monarchical Principle (1) §. 110. The English Parliamentary Principle The German Confederation ...