With your knowledge of history you know that the Popes were just bishops of Rome, just as Athanasius was bishop of Alexandria, and while the emperor liked the church or was Christian sympathetic, they could have some political voice to what ever degree the emperor favored them. However it was not until after Pepin the Frankish King gave large land holdings to the bishop of Rome that Popes began to have real authority, because this created papal states. That it was this secular authority that gave rise to papal authoritarianism with in the church.
I know this is a very rough description and that it is a long and detailed history and more factors come into play but this is the basic outline.
Primacy of the pope is heretical. A kin to Henry establishing a church and him as head, and James using his authority as king to make himself head of the Church.
I know this is a very rough description and that it is a long and detailed history and more factors come into play but this is the basic outline.
Primacy of the pope is heretical. A kin to Henry establishing a church and him as head, and James using his authority as king to make himself head of the Church.