caesaropapism

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WOTD – 29 January 2022

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From caesar +‎ -o- +‎ papism,[1] probably modelled after New Latin caesaro-papia, coined by the German ecclesiastical jurist Justus Henning Böhmer (1674–1749) in his work Jus ecclesiasticum Protestantium (Ecclesiastical Law of the Protestants, 1714–1736).[2][3]

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caesaropapism (countable and uncountable, plural caesaropapisms)

  1. (government, religion) The combination of state (originally imperial) power with religious authority; state authority over ecclesiastical matters.
    Synonyms: caesaropapacy, caesaropapalism, caesaropopism
    • 2016, Peter H[amish] Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History, London: Allen Lane, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 148:
      Shari'a civil law and Ottoman secular fiscal and administrative practice were all combined with Byzantine Caesaropapism, entrenching the ruler as legislator and inhibiting the transition to the rule of law ultimately made in the Empire.

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  1. ^ “Caesaro-papism, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2018.
  2. ^ Justi Henning Boehmeri [i.e., Justus Henning Böhmer] (1714–1736) Jus ecclesiasticum Protestantium, usum modernum iuris canonici iuxta seriem decretalium ostendens, et ipsis rerum argumentis illustrans, adiecto duplice indice [Ecclesiastical Law of the Protestants, Showing the Modern Use of Canon Law according to a Series of Decretals, and Illustrating the Arguments Themselves, with the Addition of a Double Index], Halle, Saxony-Anhalt: Orphanotropheum, →OCLC.
  3. ^ Kenneth Pennington (2010) “Caesaropapism”, in Robert L. Fastiggi, editor, New Catholic Encyclopedia. Supplement 2010, volume I, Detroit, Mich., Washington, D.C.: Gale, Cengage Learning, in association with the Catholic University of America, →ISBN, page 183.

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