Defn: Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.
The council in consequence of his revelations was dissolved, and a theocratical government of twelve elders, who were ready to receive their inspiration from the new prophet, was set up.
At the same time, when national independence was giving way to strength, the resolute energy of the theocratical party was preparing its revival.
The people ascribed all these evils to the theocratical side which was all-powerful in the reign of Hezekiah.
Tullus Hostilius improved upon thetheocratical institutions of Numa, and gave Rome a military organisation, as the secret tool with which her will was to be enforced throughout a vast part of the globe.
At most a fewtheocratical junctures, a few eminent moments of a more divine working and development of power, may be noticed at distant intervals.
Education in this theocraticalsystem is on one side patriarchal.
The government was still less theocratical when Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria, employed many of the Jews to punish those whom he regarded as rebels.
The "theocratical theory" was that of a government administered by God through the church, particularly through the church bishops.
This theocratical theory was already the prevailing one in the time of Constantine; and .
What did Augustine, the father of this theocratical or church-and-state theory, teach concerning it?
Even in Rome, whose population had a greater tendency for the positive and practical, than for the things of another world, we find the traces of theocratical government.
This is the condition to which most of the populations of Asia are sunk, because theocratical governments there restrain the progress of mankind; such, for instance, is the state of the Hindoos.
How ill adapted Christianity would be, even in a political point of view, for a theocratical formula, is well shown by Mr. Guizot, in his Hist.
We may justly speak of a Brahminic, Buddhistic, Pagan, Judaic civilization, because the social or political systems designated by these appellations were intimately connected with a more or less exclusive theocratical formula.
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