Stephen Self

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civic totalism, where the State is invested with all power and seeks to regulate as much of public and private life as possible.47 Civic totalism has forerunners in various political models in which individual rights are subordinate to the objectives of the State, and in which the necessity of crafting citizens into a certain mould trumps constitutional freedoms.
Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
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