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The Christian State

The Christian State

Friedrich Julius Stahl, Der christliche Staat und sein Verhältniß zu Deismus und Judenthum (Berlin, 1858 [1847]), pp. 1–6. Introduction Of all the negotiations of the United Diet, none had such a profound impact on the innermost foundation of ...
Of the Doctrine of State in General

Of the Doctrine of State in General

  From Friedrich Julius Stahl, The Doctrine of State & the Principles of State Law (Aalten: WordBridge, 2009), pp. 1–16. §. 1. Concept of the Ethical Kingdom The doctrine of the state, as put forward in this book, is grounded in the concept of ...
The State as Ethical Kingdom

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...
The Two Principles of State Order

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: ...
The Monarchical Principle

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. Chapter 12: The Monarchical Principle[1] §. 110. The English Parliamentary Principle <275> ...