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2j62s467634	Aaron D. Sanders	Potestas Indirecta: The Relationship between Temporal and Spiritual Authority in the Thought of St. Robert Bellarmine	1904		.txt	text/plain	255	7	32	After one chapter introducing Bellarmine and his modern interpreters, chapters 2 and 3 make use of Bellarmine's Controversies to establish his teaching regarding the temporal power of political rulers and the spiritual power of ecclesiastical rulers, respectively. Against the contention that Bellarmine's conception of the pope's indirect power over temporal affairs (potestas indirecta) is merely an attempt to retain the medieval papacy's direct control under new, more palatable terms, this dissertation argues that Bellarmine was fully committed to the natural autonomy of the political order and did not intend his theory of indirect power to be invoked apart from quite exceptional circumstances, which he did not judge to exist at the time of his writing.	cache/2j62s467634.txt	txt/2j62s467634.txt