Tag: Paul Copan
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The Monopoly on Violence and the Christian View of the State
There is general agreement within the academic disciplines related to political science that the concept of “the state” is founded upon the idea, most famously recognized by Max Weber, as a “monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory” (Acemoglu, et al. 2013, 6). This idea is more colloquially known as […]
Of Gods and Governments 