1970, Ernst Käsemann, Frank Clarke, Jesus Means Freedom, page 149
No preaching of his resurrection, and of his position of honour as cosmocrat, reveals his sublimity as does the discrepancy between him and his own people.
1984, Rama Ghose, Grace in Śaiva Siddhānta: A Study of Tiruvarutpayan̲, page 85
God, the great cosmocrat, is the only Ruler of the universe. He has His own laws. He is just. The immutable laws of the universe go to prove how just He is.
1999, Sven K. Soderlund, N. T. Wright, Romans and the People of God, page 48
[...] applied to early Gentile-Christian hymnic celebrations of "Christ the cosmocrat, ruler of creation,"
2003, David Gordon White, Kiss of the Yoginī: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts, page 134
[The] Tantric homa-master imagined himself as a cosmocrat, a universal monarch.
2001 — Peter L Bergen Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
You may have encountered a cosmocrat in your travels: the management consultant who thinks nothing of going to a meeting in Baku and then, the next day, a wedding in Oxford;
2001, Michael J. Glennon, Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism After Kosovo, page 164
It has recently been theorized that we are today witnessing the emergence of a global "cosmocrat" class, a new trans-national elite that is cosmopolitan [....]
2002, "Will Global Capitalism be Anglo-Saxon Capitalism?", in Asian Business & Management - all 7 versions »
You probably need to be a deca-millionaire at least to count as a cosmocrat, and to distinguish yourself from the rest of the middle class.
2003 — John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, A Future Perfect : The Challenge and Promise of Globalization, 'Chapter 12 - Cosmocrats: An Anxious Elite'
page 226: "On the other hand, the definition of a cosmocrat is much tighter than just "somebody who had prospered from globalization." Cosmocrats are defined by their attitudes and lifestyles rather than just their bank accounts. That separates them from the widest class of winners from globalization, who are simply local people who have plugged into global networks [...] So who are the cosmocrats? The backbone of the group is still provided by people such as Knapp: the loyal retainers of sprawling multinationals.
1963, Cyrille Toumanoff, Studies in Christian Caucasian History, page 44
.. and, being the one true king in the world, he must of necessity be the one true king of the world, a cosmocrat.
'Great King' in the East signified exactly the same thing as 'High King' in the West; both denoted a super-dynast who by the logic of the Social Myth must be a cosmocrat.
2001, Mary Beard, John Henderson, Classical Art: From Greece to Rome, page 194
The emperor Augustus receives submission and soaks up adoration; on the other side, he reappears, enthroned as cosmocrat, flanked by the obligatory Venus and Mars.
2003, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Twisted Roots: Latin America's Living Past, page 23
God was the pantocrat, the omnipotent. He had made the pope the autocrat, independent of any other power, and the cosmocrat, lord and governor of the world.
2006, Roger Beck, The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire, page 121
For while Nero's dining-room was about Nero as a cosmocrat on earth, [....]
1870, E. Peacock, Ralf Skirlaugh: The Lincolnshire Squire, III 113
The greatest politician that ever lent his aid to the party of progress, is said, on a certain well-known occasion, to have —
"bethought him what next to do."
The Jacobite Squire was looking listlessly out of the window, endeavouring to solve that problem, which even the great cosmocrat we have alluded to seems to have found a difficult one.
1943, Johannes Quasten, Stephan Kuttner, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, page 127
It was left to the cosmocrat that was Basil II to bring this tendency to a near triumph.
1994, David Ernest Apter, Tony Saich, Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic, page 19
In Yan'an he becomes a Socratic Mao, the philosopher-king, the teacher cum cosmocrat. The transition is a particularly notable event, the Rectification Campaign.
