John M. Mason (1770–1829) American Doctor of Divinity
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 86.
"Nihilism On A Religious Soil" (6 May 1907); it should be noted here that Berdyaev is here defining "theocracy" not in the sense as it is often used, of people ruling over other people, in claims of doing so by the commands of God, but rather defining it in terms of Christian anarchism — as a vigorous assertion of the right of no-one to rule over humans, save God.
Context: The new religious consciousness rises up against the nihilistic attitude towards the world and mankind. If a religious rebirth be possible, only then on this soil will there be the revealing of the religious meaning of secular culture and earthly liberation, the revealing of the truth about mankind. For the new religious consciousness the declaration of the will of God is together with this a declaration of the rights of man, a revealing of the Divine within mankind. We believe in the objective, the cosmic might of the truth of God, in the possibility according to God to guide the earthly destiny of mankind. This will be the victory of the true theocracy, whether over a false democratism, — the apotheosis of the quantitative collectivity of human wills, or so also over the false theocraticism, — all that apotheosis of the human will within Caesaropapism or Papocaesarism. Christ cannot have human vicarage in the person of the tsar or high-priest. He — is Himself the Tsar and High-Priest, and He will reign in the world. “Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven.”
John M. Mason (1770–1829) American Doctor of Divinity
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 86.
“It is the high priests that make demands — not the gods they serve.”
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966) Polish writer
More Unkempt Thoughts (1964)
Evgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844) Russian poet
1840 <br class="br"> From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Poetry, http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/mdenner/Demo/texts/thoughts_more_thoughts.html Northwestern University (2001)
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article I, p. 786 (See also.. Public-private partnerships).
“One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest.”
Non est jam dicere, "Ut populus, sic sacerdos"; quia nec si populus, ut sacerdos.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
In Conversione S. Pauli, Sermon 1, sect. 3; translation by James Spedding, in The Works of Francis Bacon (1860) vol. 12, p. 134
Ut populus, sic sacerdos is a quotation from Isaiah 24:2.
Volodymyr Viytyshyn (1959) Polish archbishop
Source: In becoming a priest, you were agreeing to be a martyr https://osvnews.com/2018/08/15/underground-period-marks-ukrainian-church/ (15 August 2018)
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) Indian theologian
Kunnumpuram, K. (2009) Towards the Fullness of Life: Reflections on the Daily Living of the Faith. Mumbai: St Pauls
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