Church and State in the New World

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the Spanish and Portuguese rule in the New World and their intimate ties with the affairs and authority of the Church. The paper looks at how this continued into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but shows how by the nineteenth century the relationship between church and state had weakened thus causing Spain and Portugal's empire to disappear.

From the Paper:

"Spanish and Portuguese rule in the New World has been a complicated affair full of tensions and relationships which seem unnatural to the modern American and democratic viewpoint. For generations, the Spanish and Portuguese crowns had intimate ties with the affairs and authority of the Church. However during early American settlement, the state had taken center stage, with undertones. After a reunion of church and state in the New World in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Spanish and Portuguese lands in the Americas had re-opened the divide between church and state. Throughout rule in the New World, the Church gave justification to the brutal conquest and control over its far away colonies."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Mills, Kenneth; Taylor, William. Colonial Latin America. SR Books. 2002.

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