Latin phrase corpus mysticum ("mystical body"). In de Lubac's time, especially as evidenced in Pope Pius XII's 1943 encyclical Mystici corporis Christi, this phrase was typically used to refer to the Church as the "mystical body" of Christ.
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The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology
The King has in him two Bodies, viz., a Body natural, and a Body politic. His Body natural (if it be considered in itself) is a Body mortal, subject to all infirmities that come by Nature or Accident, to the Imbecility of Infancy or old Age, and to the like Defects that happen to the natural Bodies of other People.
The King’s Two Bodies thus form one unit indivisible, each being fully contained in the other. However, doubt cannot arise concerning the superiority of the body politic over the body natural. His Body politic is more ample and large than the Body natural.
Not only is the body politic “more ample and large” than the body natural, but there dwell in the former certain truly mysterious forces which reduce, or even remove, the imperfections of the fragile human nature.
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A concept Lincoln pilfered and applied to the "mystical union" of the States, as if it were something sacred and not to be broken.
I strongly dislike when names, attributes, and purposes of the church are stolen by States, nations, and politicians for political ends.
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this concept was definitely borrowed and applied. its mostly seen today in corporate america. its kinda fascinating to me.