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The apostle who carried Christianity into the Greco-Roman world, Paul established salvation by grace rather than Mosaic law, waived circumcision for gentiles and preached submission to constituted authority.
Political axes
Saint Paul (Paul of Tarsus) leans further toward religious than 90% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Saint Paul (Paul of Tarsus) stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, Saint Paul (Paul of Tarsus) sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Christian vision that places the universal Church above nations, races and borders, in the line of Paul of Tarsus and Augustine, joining intense faith, traditional morals and spiritual authority with brotherhood among all peoples.
Social doctrine of the Catholic Church, combining traditionalist morality and defense of life with concern for social justice, subsidiarity and worker dignity, under the hierarchical authority of the papacy and canon law.
Nineteenth-century constitutional monarchy model in which the monarch exercises a fourth Moderating Power above the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, arbitrating conflicts and guaranteeing stability over an agrarian economy.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian40%
Bishop and theologian of Roman North Africa, Augustine formulated the doctrines of original sin and grace, wrote the Confessions and The City of God, and defended imperial coercion against Donatist heretics.
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A city-state governed by the Holy See, the Vatican combines religious sovereignty, an absolute elective monarchy, and clerical administration, functioning as the institutional center of the Catholic Church and a global diplomatic actor.
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The city of Geneva under Calvin (1541–1564) organized itself as an urban Reformed theocracy, with the Consistory disciplining public morality and the Ordonnances Ecclésiastiques regulating all religious and civil life and exporting Puritanism.
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