Would you consider having Dave “The Distributist” Greene on your show? He is a Catholic RU-vidr/Substack author interested in cultivating post-liberal culture.
1:03 Just a peeve. Why is everyone saying "Louis" and even making a point of pronouncing him in French? In German, one would say "Ludwig" and in Hungarian one would say "Lajós." English also has its own form of "Louis," and that is "Lewis."
59:28 Agreed. It is true that the sovereign is the one who decides the exception. But it doesn’t then follow that the sovereign is absolutist in the early modern sense. This is both because Christ is the ultimate sovereign, *and* because peace comes prior to sin (making custom so important).
If the aim of a Christian is not happiness in this temporal world, but eternal joy in the "next life" in heaven, why is there a need for a king in this temporal passing world?
I think the aim is to lead all creation into the worship of God, here on earth as it is in Heaven. That often means eschewing temporal pleasure, but it can include working together in the here and now (because that’s where God has placed us) and therefore will include the enjoyment of both God’s creation and man made goods (so long as they glorify God, since they were made by a creation of God.) I don’t think we have to have an earthly king to achieve that end, but we definitely need to organize and order our environs and society.
