Robert Bellarmine's Controversies and the Oath of Allegiance's discussion with James I
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In this article, we aim to highlight the importance of Robert Bellarmine and Francisco Suárez in the political-theological debates that arose around the Oath of Allegiance (1606), imposed by King James I of England. In their writings, they elaborated some extraordinarily modern proposals regarding the 'democratic' origin of civil authority and the limits of political power, along with a suggestive and controversial doctrine on the 'indirect power' of the papacy, which sparked enormous debate in 17th-century England, reaching writers such as Thomas Hobbes and Robert Filmer.
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