TRS 859C Throne and Altar
Spiritual power, in ancient Christianity, flowed through the person of the anointed ruler. Supported by exegesis of the Old Testament, a durable spirituality of royal power developed that only ended well into the twentieth century. This course examines the political theology of Christian kingship and its disputants through the rise of Islam, which, in reaction, proposed a new theology of political life and generated in the East a Christian apocalyptic eschatological response where in the West Charlemagne set the pattern for medieval holy kingship