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«تئوکراسی» در فرهنگ سیاسی غرب واژه کاملاً منفی است و در زبان انگلیسی اولین بار در سده هفدهم میلادی برای ارجاع به نوع حکومت مقبول یهودیان به کار رفته با ارجاع به توصیف فلاویوس جوزفوس از حکومت یهودیه یعنی حکومت خاندان هیرود و سلسله مراتب کاهنی- خاخامی (صدوقیون و فریسیون) در روم باستان. «تئوکراسی» در فرهنگ اروپای غربی دو شاخص دارد: اول، منتسب کردن نظام سیاسی به خداوند یعنی نشانیدن خداوند در مقام پادشاه. دوم، نظم سیاسی مبتنی بر سلسله مراتب «روحانی» (در مقابل «سکولار» یا «دنیوی») یعنی چنان سلسله مراتب نهادینه خاخامی یا کلیسایی که در تشیع وجود نداشته و ندارد.
انطباق این مفهوم بر نظام سیاسی جمهوری اسلامی مبتنی بر ولایت فقیه یا به دلیل کم‌سوادی و «ابراز فضل» ناشی از آن است یا هشیارانه و از سر شیطنت.
این تعریف «تئوکراسی» است در فرهنگ مفصل آکسفورد:
theocracy [ad. Gr. θεοκρατία (Josephus): see theo- and -cracy: cf. F. théocratie (1704 in Hatz.-Darm.).] A form of government in which God (or a deity) is recognized as the king or immediate ruler, and his laws are taken as the statute-book of the kingdom, these laws being usually administered by a priestly order as his ministers and agents; hence (loosely) a system of government by a sacerdotal order, claiming a divine commission; also, a state so governed: esp. applied to the commonwealth of Israel from the exodus to the election of Saul as king. 1622 Donne Serm. (ed. Alford) V. 209 The Jews were only under a Theocraty, an immediate Government of God. a 1652 J. Smith Sel. Disc. vii. iv. (1821) 346 Josephus‥properly calls the Jewish government θεοκρατιαν, ‘a theocracy’, or ‘the government of God himself’. 1737 Whiston Josephus, Agst. Apion ii. §17 (1814) IV. 340 He [Moses] ordained our government to be what, by a strained expression, may be termed a Theocracy [ὡς δ'ἄν τίς εἴποι, βιασάµενος τὸν λόγον, θεοκρατίαν]. 1741 Warburton Div. Legat. v. ii. II. 365 Thus the Almighty becoming their King, in as proper a Sense as he was their God, the Republic of the Israelites was properly a Theocracy; in which the two Societies, Civil and Religious, must‥be intirely incorporated. 1811 Pinkerton Mod. Geog., Peru (ed. 3) 694 The government of the incas was a kind of theocracy. 1836 J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (ed. 2) II. xxi. 283 When they tired of the Christian Theocracy, and clothed the church with ‘the purple robe’ of Cæsar. 1863 Stanley Jew. Ch. vii. 155 The ‘Theocracy’ of Moses... was a government by God Himself, as opposed to the government by priests or kings. 1864 Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 276 It [the Church of Calvin] was a theocracy, dictating to all men the rule of the Deity as to their daily life. 1878 Maclear Celts ii. (1879) 17 The Druids were at once the ministers of a theocracy and the judges and legislators of the people. b.b transf. A priestly order or religious body exercising political or civil power. 1825 Wellington Desp. (1867) II. 597 The Roman Catholic clergy, nobility, lawyers, and gentlemen having property, form a sort of theocracy in Ireland, which in all essential points governs the populace.
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