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Though love of country and of race, when guided by the dictates of Christianity, becomes a spur to many deeds of virtue and of heroism, it may also become the seed of widespread injustice and iniquity, if transgressing the bounds of right and justice.
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THE KINGSHIP OF CHRIST is chiefly a Confession of Faith in Our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ. It proclaims that He is God and that, therefore, His rights over mankind are absolute. It also declares that He is Man, and that, as such, He is Head of the Mystical Body, Priest and Universal King. Dr. Fahey develops his thesis on the Kingship of Jesus Christ by applying the doctrine of the Incarnation to the history of the modem world. He is guided throughout by the safe principles of the Prince of Theologians, St. Thomas Aquinas. Students of St. Thomas will readily see that this work is not-in fact within its scope, cannot bean exhaustive treatise either of the doctrine of St. Thomas concerning the Kingship of Jesus Christ or of the modem acceptance and rejection of that doctrine. They will, however, see, especially if they are accustomed to the handling of historical documents, that this slender volume is a valuable summary of dogmatic truths and historical facts. There is not, as far as my knowledge goes, certainly not in the English language, any other work, which attempts such a synthesis of principles and events. In modem works one often notices a tendency to substitute for grave historical documents the deductions, however correct, of commentators. It is then a delight to the serious reader to find such a wealth of documentation as this book supplies.
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