{"id":35623,"date":"2022-04-03T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T20:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35623"},"modified":"2022-04-03T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T20:02:30","slug":"word-of-the-day-783","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/03\/word-of-the-day-783\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Caesaropapism<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Caesaropapism<\/b>\u00a0<span class=\"rt-commentedText nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups noexcerpt\"><a title=\"Help:IPA\/English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/<span title=\"\/\u02cc\/: secondary stress follows\">\u02cc<\/span><span title=\"'s' in 'sigh'\">s<\/span><span title=\"\/i\u02d0\/: 'ee' in 'fleece'\">i\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"'z' in 'zoom'\">z<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259r\/: 'er' in 'letter'\">\u0259r<\/span><span title=\"\/o\u028a\/: 'o' in 'code'\">o\u028a<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/: primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'p' in 'pie'\">p<\/span><span title=\"\/e\u026a\/: 'a' in 'face'\">e\u026a<\/span><span title=\"'p' in 'pie'\">p<\/span><span title=\"\/\u026a\/: 'i' in 'kit'\">\u026a<\/span><span title=\"'z' in 'zoom'\">z<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259m\/: 'm' in 'rhythm'\">\u0259m<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0is the idea of combining the\u00a0<a title=\"Power (social and political)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_(social_and_political)\">social and political power<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Secularity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secularity\">secular<\/a>\u00a0government with religious power, or of making secular authority superior to the spiritual authority of the Church; especially concerning the connection of the Church with government. Although\u00a0<a title=\"Justus Henning B\u00f6hmer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Justus_Henning_B%C3%B6hmer\">Justus Henning B\u00f6hmer<\/a>\u00a0(1674\u20131749) may have originally coined the term\u00a0<i><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wiktionary:caesaropapism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/caesaropapism\">caesaropapism<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(<i>C\u00e4seropapismus<\/i>),\u00a0it was\u00a0<a title=\"Max Weber\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Weber\">Max Weber<\/a>\u00a0(1864\u20131920) who wrote: &#8220;a secular, caesaropapist ruler&#8230; exercises supreme authority in ecclesiastic matters by virtue of his autonomous legitimacy&#8221;.\u00a0According to Weber, caesaropapism entails &#8220;the complete subordination of priests to secular power.&#8221;<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caesaropapism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/denvercatholic.org\/an-orthodox-awakening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>An Orthodox awakening<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; George Weigel, <em><strong>Denver Catholic<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Second, the signatories \u201cfirmly reject all forms of government that deify the state (theocracy) and absorb the Church, depriving the Church of its freedom to stand prophetically against all injustice.\u201d They also \u201crebuke all those who affirm caesaropapism,\u201d which subordinates obedience to Christ to obedience to a \u201cleader vested with ruling powers and claiming to be God\u2019s anointed, whether known by the title \u2018Caesar,\u2019 \u2018Emperor,\u2019 \u2018Tsar,\u2019 \u2018or \u2018President.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Say <em>caesaropapism<\/em> five times fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caesaropapism: Caesaropapism\u00a0\/\u02ccsi\u02d0z\u0259ro\u028a\u02c8pe\u026ap\u026az\u0259m\/\u00a0is the idea of combining the\u00a0social and political power\u00a0of\u00a0secular\u00a0government with religious power, or of making secular authority superior to the spiritual authority of the Church; especially concerning the connection of the Church with government. Although\u00a0Justus Henning B\u00f6hmer\u00a0(1674\u20131749) may have originally coined the term\u00a0caesaropapism\u00a0(C\u00e4seropapismus),\u00a0it was\u00a0Max Weber\u00a0(1864\u20131920) who wrote: &#8220;a secular, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/03\/word-of-the-day-783\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35624,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623\/revisions\/35624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}