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  • And when the Protestant churches — notably the Calvinist — did devise a doctrine of resist - ance to authority in the name of religious liberty during the latter part of the sixteenth century, it was given the same label (monarchomach) and it took the same form as the concurrent Catholic doctrine of resistance to Protestant authority — a form that meant not a new development away from the idea of ecclesiastical authoritative power but only a denial of it to the wrong

    AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968

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