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"The Church Is Like the Ancient Roman State" | Episode LXXXI


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The Renaissance humanist Biondo Flavio dedicated his massive book Roma Triumphans, a historical investigation of what made Rome great, to his fellow humanist Pope Pius II. He contended that central to the story of Roman greatness was Roman religion, and that the Roman Catholic Church was the heir of the Roman Empire, correcting its faults even as it carried its legacy into the modern world. As James Hankins discusses in Virtue Politics, the main policy position that Biondo advocated for, in order for Europe to recapture the spirit of ancient Rome, was a renewal of the Crusades, so that the dominion of the Catholic Church could encompass the territory of the Roman Empire.


James Hankins' Virtue Politics: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674278738


New Humanists episode on Irving Babbitt, feat. Eric Adler: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/episodes/15574729-humanism-with-or-without-god-feat-eric-adler-episode-lxxiv


Biondo Flavio's Roma Triumphans: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780674055049


Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780300240023


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