Judicium Dei:the social and political significance of the ordeal in the eleventh century
Colin Morris
‘Church, Society and Politics’ is a theme of great importance, for most the history church christians have been aware distinction between these three areas human activity. They differed about their relationship, in particular extent to which political action social order ought be controlled directly by christian ethic, but it has widely recognised that conduct government, example, was field had its own special requirements expertise, God’s personal intervention would neither expected nor welcomed. ‘Aid from heaven’, went one nineteenth-century comment, ‘aid heaven you may saying your prayers, no angel will come name junior lords Treasury’.
Studies in Church History