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It has put the Conservatives ahead in the polls and left Ed Miliband's leadership of Labour looking exposed while Cameron's leadership of the Conservatives is sacralised at the Eurosceptic altar.
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The French Revolution established and sacralised the citizen-soldier-voter link.
The Seven Dimensions 2007
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It is good because it represents the best security we have against uncriticised, sacralised power in the political realm.
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I quoted words a minute ago about the risks of 'chaotic pluralism'; but pluralism of some sort is implicit in any political philosophy that rejects a sacralised sovereignty.
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This was frequently taken to mean that the Church could claim to offer what the state couldn't, a focal, omnicompetent authority; but there are some signs in the Middle Ages and after of a theological awareness that the whole idea of sacralised central authority, a single source of law, might be questionable, in the visible Church as much as in the state.
David Nicholls Memorial Lecture: 'Law, Power and Peace: Christian Perspectives on Sovereignty' 2005
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This was frequently taken to mean that the Church could claim to offer what the state couldn't, a focal, omnicompetent authority; but there are some signs in the Middle Ages and after of a theological awareness that the whole idea of sacralised central authority, a single source of law, might be questionable, in the visible Church as much as in the state.
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It is good because it represents the best security we have against uncriticised, sacralised power in the political realm.
David Nicholls Memorial Lecture: 'Law, Power and Peace: Christian Perspectives on Sovereignty' 2005
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'Atheism' was a decision to place certain loyalties above those owed to the sacralised power of the state.
'Analysing Atheism; Unbelief and the world of Faiths' Georgetown University, Washington DC 2004
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Piero della Francesca's Nativity of 1470-5 hangs in a room that feels like a small, hushed, sacralised space.
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More worryingly, today’s enemy was the vanguard in our battles against the infidels and while the state might have chosen to redefine some parameters of Pakistani nationalism, he holds the ideals aloft and considers the state and its functionaries treacherous — not only because the state that sacralised itself by making the narrative religion-heavy is now reneging on those parameters but because by doing so it is also undermining the bigger ideal of pan-Islamism.
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