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Definition of Caesaropapism
1. Noun. The doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caesaropapism
Literary usage of Caesaropapism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 by John Bagnell Bury (1889)
"... XI JUSTINIAN'S caesaropapism THE absolutism of Justinian extended to the
ecclesiastical world, and in church as well as in state history he occupies a ..."
2. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"The caesaropapism of Byzantium was revived by Moscow, and the third Rome became
a perfected theocracy. In Moscow as in the west the outlook on life and the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"These existed in England before the Reformation and have survived it ; they
likewise existed in Germany, but were crushed out by Protestant caesaropapism, ..."
4. The History of the Balkan Peninsula: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Ferdinand Schevill (1922)
"Clearly, however, this caesaropapism, as his unlimited control of both church
and state has rather lumberingly been called, was not in accordance with ..."
5. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"This position of the Emperor in relation to the Church is known as caesaropapism.
(See Bury, Later Roman Empire, chap. XI.) The ecclesiastical legislation ..."
6. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"A long name, caesaropapism, has been coined to stigmatise such a competing claim
where it is still put forward. On the abstract question a rationalist will ..."
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