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Serving God in a largely theocratic society: rivalry and cooperation between Church and King
2009
Theocracy may be understood in different ways. The meaning mostly used is government by priesthood but we may call that “ecclesiocracy” or “hierocracy.” Here, theocracy will designate government according to God’s prescriptions and wishes—with the specification that the implementation or satisfaction of these prescriptions and wishes should be a public or political rather than a private affair and should involve some degree of coercion. The two meanings are different notably because, in the second, priests need not be the ones, or the only ones, who rule on God’s behalf.
Matka Maria (Skobcowa) w świecie idei Władimira Sołowiowa
2016
This paper covers the reflections of Mother Maria on Vladimir Solovyov’s keyphilosophical concepts — including Allunity and Panunity, Sophia, Divine Humanity, goodand evil, theocracy, and the Russian Idea — included in Światopogląd Władimira Sołowiowa [Vladimir Solovyov’s Weltanschauung]. It also hints her judgement on the role and legacy ofthe author of A Story of Anti-Christ within the history of philosophy. Skobstova’s convictionof persisting impact of Solovyov’s philosophy is rooted in his task to prevail over the destructive tendency present in European philosophy, which has resulted in the crisis of understanding of the world. Skobtsova analyses and comments upon Solovyov’s thought no…