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🏆Theocracy🏆 Theocracy is a form of government in which a deity of some type is recognized as the supreme ruling authority, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries that manage the day-to-day affairs of the government. 👉The Imperial cult of ancient Rome identified Roman emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority of the Roman State. 👉The official offer of cultus to a living emperor acknowledged his office and rule as divinely approved and constitutional; his Principate should therefore demonstrate pious respect for traditional Republican deities and mores. 👉The term was initially coined by Flavius Josephus in the first century A.D. to describe the characteristic government of the Jews. 👉Josephus argued that while mankind had developed many forms of rule, most could be subsumed under the following three types: monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy. 👉However, according to Josephus, the government of the Jews was unique. Josephus offered the term "theocracy" to describe this polity, ordained by Moses, in which God is sovereign and his word is law. 👉Josephus' definition was widely accepted until the Enlightenment era, when the term took on negative connotations and was hardly salvaged by Hegel's abstruse commentary. 👉The first recorded English use was in 1622, with the meaning "sacerdotal government under divine inspiration" ; the meaning "priestly or religious body wielding political and civil power" is recorded from 1825. Credit: Wikipedia