Abstract
This essay argues that Church canon law was an important weapon used by early modern, Counter-Reformation Catholic thinkers, such as Robert Bellarmine, to desecularise civil society in the face of the increasingly strong secular states. The terms “secularisation” and “desecularisation” are defined and canon law and its complex institutional history is briefly presented before showing how canon law provided Bellarmine with a coherent perspective within which to argue for the “indirect power” of popes.
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