Theocracy
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| - | '''theocracy''' | + | '''Theocracy''' is a form of government in which a [[deity]] is the source from which all authority derives. The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' has this definition: |
| - | #[[government|Government]] under the control of a [[Church]] or [[state]]-[[sponsored]] [[religion]].<P> | + | :1. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
| - | #Rule by [[God]]. | + | :1.1. the commonwealth of Israel from the time of Moses until the election of Saul as King. |
| - | == See also == | + | |
| + | An '''ecclesiocracy''' is a situation where the religious leaders assume a leading role in the state, but do not claim that they are instruments of divine revelation. For example, the [[prince-bishop]]s of the [[European Middle Ages]], where the bishop was also the temporal ruler. Such a state may use the administrative hierarchy of the religion for its own administration, or it may have two 'arms'—administrators and clergy—but with the state administrative hierarchy subordinate to the religious hierarchy. | ||
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| + | The papacy in the [[Papal States]] occupied a middle ground between theocracy and ecclesiocracy, since the Pope did not claim he was a prophet who received revelation from God and translated it into civil law. | ||
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| + | Religiously endorsed [[monarchy|monarchies]] fall between theocracy and ecclesiocracy, according to the relative strengths of the religious and political organs. | ||
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| + | Most forms of theocracy are [[oligarchy|oligarchic]] in nature, involving rule of the many by the few, some of whom so anointed under claim of divine commission. | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *'''General:''' | ||
| + | ** [[Divine law]] | ||
| + | ** [[Divine command theory]] | ||
| + | ** [[Philosopher king]] | ||
| + | ** [[Religious law]] | ||
| *'''Christian:''' | *'''Christian:''' | ||
| ** [[Christian Reconstructionism]] | ** [[Christian Reconstructionism]] | ||
| ** [[Divine Right of Kings]] | ** [[Divine Right of Kings]] | ||
| ** [[Dominionism]] | ** [[Dominionism]] | ||
| - | ** [[Falange]] | ||
| ** [[National Catholicism]] | ** [[National Catholicism]] | ||
| - | ** [[Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses]] | + | ** [[Temporal power (papal)]] |
| - | ** [[Rexism]] | + | |
| ** [[Theonomy]] | ** [[Theonomy]] | ||
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| *'''Islamic:''' | *'''Islamic:''' | ||
| ** [[Iranian Revolution]] | ** [[Iranian Revolution]] | ||
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| ** [[Taliban]] | ** [[Taliban]] | ||
| ** [[Wahhabi]] | ** [[Wahhabi]] | ||
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| *'''Other:''' | *'''Other:''' | ||
| ** [[Khalistan]] | ** [[Khalistan]] | ||
| - | ** [[Unification Church and political involvement]] | + | ** [[State Shinto]] (Japan) |
| + | ** [[State religion]] | ||
| + | *'''Fictional:''' | ||
| + | ** [[List of fictional theocracies]] | ||
| + | ** [[Religion in science fiction]] | ||
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Theocracy is a form of government in which a deity is the source from which all authority derives. The Oxford English Dictionary has this definition:
- 1. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
- 1.1. the commonwealth of Israel from the time of Moses until the election of Saul as King.
An ecclesiocracy is a situation where the religious leaders assume a leading role in the state, but do not claim that they are instruments of divine revelation. For example, the prince-bishops of the European Middle Ages, where the bishop was also the temporal ruler. Such a state may use the administrative hierarchy of the religion for its own administration, or it may have two 'arms'—administrators and clergy—but with the state administrative hierarchy subordinate to the religious hierarchy.
The papacy in the Papal States occupied a middle ground between theocracy and ecclesiocracy, since the Pope did not claim he was a prophet who received revelation from God and translated it into civil law.
Religiously endorsed monarchies fall between theocracy and ecclesiocracy, according to the relative strengths of the religious and political organs.
Most forms of theocracy are oligarchic in nature, involving rule of the many by the few, some of whom so anointed under claim of divine commission.
See also
- General:
- Christian:
- Islamic:
- Other:
- Khalistan
- State Shinto (Japan)
- State religion
- Fictional:
