Ecclesiocracy

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Order of Contents

Definition  1
Articles  2
Quotes  2

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Definition of an Ecclesiocracy

The Church has jurisdiction over the State.  This is the historic view of Roman Catholicism.

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Articles

1800’s

Cunningham, William

‘The Popish Theory’, p. 402, 10 pp.  in Historical Theology, vol. 1

‘The Temporal Sovereignty’‘Supremacy of the Pope’, 1863, starting on p. 78 and 101 respectively, 22 and 31 pages respectively, being Chapters 3 and 4 from his Discussions on Church Principles

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Quotes

1700’s

John Howe

‘Some Consideration of a Preface to an Inquiry Concerning the Occasional Conformity of Dissenters, etc.’  in The Works of John Howe, vol. 5, Containing the Treatises: On Divine Prescience & the Trinity…  (d. 1705; Religious Tract Society, 1863), p. 286

“In that [Roman] Church, this caprice [of Church power over civil governments] first began in their dominium temporale in gratia fundatum [Temporal dominion has been founded in grace];”

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1800’s

John ‘Rabbi’ Duncan

On bishops in the English House of Lords:

“As lords they are not spiritual, and as spiritual they are not lords.”

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Related Pages

Church-State Relations