Gelasian dyarchy

alternative Gelasian diarchy

1. uncountableCatholicismThe 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.

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

   1953, Religion in Life, volume 23, page 178

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   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.

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

   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.”

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

   Synonyms: Gelasian dualism