If you want to trigger the libs, Carl Schmitt > Erik Peterson. But if you want an authentic Catholic political theology, Peterson >>> Schmitt. Thread ...
2/ Peterson: angels at Eucharist are like soldiers accompanying a kings They make the public character clear.
3/ Angels at a mass, marriage, or ordination mark these events as public; they’re not private affairs.
4/ What the Church Fathers, and Rev 4-5 make clear is that the public nature of these rites is not granted by the state, but intrinsic to the life of the Church.
5/ The relationship of the ekklesia to the polis in heaven is a political relationship, & on this basis angels are intrinsically part of the Church’s cultic action.
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