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Christianity Changes the Conditions of Government

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  • Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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Three brief chapters of The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889) capture some the book’s important ideas about the composition of ancient polytheism, and how the universal benevolence of Christianity’s monotheistic gospel would in time spell a new world. “[T]o obey Cæsar is no longer the same thing as to obey God.” The book, originally in French, was first published in 1864. In a foreword to the selection, Fustel de Coulanges’s book is related to Larry Siedentop’s book Inventing the Individual: Origins of Western Liberalism.

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  • Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, 2024. "Christianity Changes the Conditions of Government," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 21(1), pages 235–250-2, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ejw:journl:v:21:y:2024:i:1:p:235-250
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    Keywords

    Paterfamilias; cult; polytheism; monotheism; Christianity; religion; liberalism;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • B10 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - General
    • B11 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Preclassical (Ancient, Medieval, Mercantilist, Physiocratic)
    • B12 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
    • Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion

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