Gelasian dyarchy

English

Alternative forms

• Gelasian diarchy

Noun

Gelasian dyarchy (uncountable)

1. (Roman Catholicism, politics) The doctrine, traced back to Pope Gelasius I, that there are two authorities governing human affairs, the spiritual authority of the church and the temporal authority of the empire or secular government.
   • 1953, Religion in Life‎^[1], volume 23, page 178:

     Father Murray is concerned to restate the Gelasian dyarchy in democratic terms.

   • 1962, Newman C. Eberhardt, A Summary of Catholic History, volume 2, page 161:

     Between secularists and anticlericals who would subject the Church to the state or entirely separate the institutions, and fanatical medievalists and curialists who would, against all reasonable hope, cling to their own inaccurate versions of theocracy, the pope steered a middle course that recalled the Gelasian dyarchy.

   • 2004, Robert Krieg, Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany, →ISBN, page 18:

     Determining the popes’ view of the relationship between church and state was their interpretation of “the Gelasian dyarchy,” the ancient papal teaching that “this world is ruled by two powers.”

Synonyms

• Gelasian dualism

Related terms

• two swords

Further reading

• Famuli vestrae pietatis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia