Um modelo paradigmático do pensamento hierocrático: o De regimine christiano

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, José Antônio de C. R. de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/theologica.2013.2475

At the climax of the controversy between Boniface VIII and Philippe IV of France, around the power relations, the agostinian friar James of Viterbo wrote the treatise De regimine chirstiano, in which he conceives the Church/Christian Society like a kingdom, whose king is Jesus Christ and, visibly, His vicar, the Roman Pontiff, who has the plenitudo potestatis in spiritualibus et temporalibus. In this study, with the purpose of to encourage new researches, interested on themedival political thought, first, we present a embracing sight of this work, after, we analyse the most important ideas of the treatise and its foundations; in third place, en passant, we consider the author’s life and the historical context and, finally, as it were «an appetizer», we offer the tranlation in portuguese of the chapiter IX of the IIa Part, in which James explains about the papal power and justifies its pre-eminence over all other political powers which exist in the Christianity.