“基督教国家”的理念和现实基础

Ideological and Practical Foundations of the Christendom

基督教在由“出世”倾向朝“入世”倾向转变的过程中 ,提出了神权统治的思想体系。利用中世纪初期西欧政治秩序的混乱 ,基督教会凭借其经济、文化和社会势能 ,实现了其政治理念 ,把中世纪的欧洲锻造成一个单一的政治实体 ,即所谓的“基督教国家’。这个进程充分反映了宗教意识形态对人类文明发展的巨大影响。

With its inclination toward the secular affairs, Christianity developed an elaborate theory of theocracy. In the post-Roman Empire chaos, the Roman Catholic Church tried all the means at its disposal to realize its theocractic ideology, and succeeded in forging Western Europe into a single entity, culturally, socially, as well as politically.Thusestablished community the Medieval Christendom, fully demonstrated the significant effects of religious ideology in the development of civilization.