Citations:theocracy

English citations of theocracy

Noun: rule by a god

• 2001, Marilynn Giroux Hitchens, Heidi Roupp, Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat II: World History, page 29:

  Thus, Egyptian civilization emerged confident, tranquil, and insular. Geographical unity gave rise to political unity under the authority of one king, a pharaoh. Pharaohs of the Egyptian theocracy were not only absolute rulers and owners of the country, but were also worshipped as gods.

• 2003, Jan Assmann, The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs, page 300:

  As far as the first four Egyptian dynasties are concerned, we may with some justice speak of direct theocracy because there the rule of the pharaoh was understood not as a representation but as an embodiment of god.

• 2011, Sam Lucerne, Theocracies, page 34:

  In ancient Egypt's theocracy, a pharaoh, who was considered divine, was the head […]

• 2015 November 20, Daniel M. Bell Jr., chapter 6, in Craig Hovey, Elizabeth Phillips, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology‎^[1], New York: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

  As Cavanaugh writes, “Strictly speaking, the world is a theocracy: it is ruled by God.”⁵³ Ward makes a similar claim when he writes, “[T]he kingdom of God is a theocracy and theocratic politics is what Christians are about.”⁵⁴