Unit 12: Review

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Unit 12 Review
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844568.book.part.060

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Abstract

Caesaropapism recognizes no separation of church and state. Caesaropapism, the opposite of theocracy, asserts the position of the political ruler over the church. Caesaropapism describes the practice of the Byzantine emperors as they ruled over councils and appointed patriarchs. Saints such as John Chrysostom, the patriarch of Constantinople, vigorously opposed imperial control over the church. Caesaropapism appeared again later in history when King Henry VII made himself head of the Church of England in 1534 and when Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) assumed the title czar in 1547 and subordinated the Russian Orthodox Church to the state.

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