The entire Repug hierocracy is engaging in ‘Revisionist History’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Does Rove Think Reagan And Bush Were ‘Weak’ For Discussing The ‘Situation’ They Inherited?] Reference

It is not the case that the hierocracy is based on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

Deflections happen repeatedly at higher levels of railway hierocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [rediff.com] Reference

The hierocracy is taken for granted as the constitution of the congregation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

The arbitrary proceeding of Joash did not well suit the ideas of an autonomous hierocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

All these changes are the natural outcome of the importation of the hierocracy into Mosaic times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

Here plainly lies the material basis of the hierocracy from which the royal throne was ultimately reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

The distinction, drawn with such pains between the Mosaic theocracy and the post-exilic hierocracy, is too fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

The circumstance is one indication of a melancholy process of disintegration that was at that time going on within the hierocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

For under the last-named the secularisation of the hierocracy no longer presented any attractive aspects; it was wholly repellent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

Priestly Code: that code was only introduced after the hierocracy was already in existence, but helped, no doubt, to consolidate and legalise it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

Samuel's relation to Saul and David is based on the erroneous assumption that Samuel had the hierocracy to rest on in his acts of opposition to the monarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

But the student who carries back the hierocracy to these early times has still to learn the very elements of what is necessary to a true historical appreciation of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

The problem would in this case still be the same, namely, to explain how it is that with and after the exile the hierocracy begins to come into practical activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

The Book of Chronicles shows in what manner it was necessary to deal with the history of bygone times when it was assumed that the Mosaic hierocracy was their fundamental institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

But the suddenness with which this full-grown hierocracy descended on the wilderness from the skies is only matched by the suddenness with which it afterwards disappeared in Canaan, leaving no trace behind it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

It will therefore perhaps appear all the more extraordinary that Buddhism, in consequence of the efforts of the reformer Thong-Kaba, has developed in Tibet a formal hierarchy and hierocracy in Lamaism (Lama = Brahma).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Abner and Amasa, or to attribute to him any conspiracy with the hierocracy for the destruction of Saul, and thus to deprive him of the authorship of the elegy in 2Samuel i, which certainly was not the work of a hypocrite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

The desire to introduce the leader of the hierocracy, and with its leader the hierocracy itself, into the Mosaic history, has borne the most remarkable fruits in the so-called story of the rebellion of the company of Korah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

Hebrew antiquity shows absolutely no tendencies towards a hierocracy; power is wielded solely by the heads of families and of tribes, and by the kings, who exercise control over religious worship also, and appoint and depose its priests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

Persians, lent themselves to the formation of a hierocracy, to which, as to the truly national and moreover divine authority, the people gave voluntary obedience, and to which the Persians also conceded rights they could not have granted to the family of David.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

Special attention was directed to such provisions of the Pentateuch as were of immediate importance for the people in the circumstances of the day -- the greater part of the whole work is about the ritual of the priests -- and those were in particular insisted on which refer to the contributions of the laity to the priesthood, on which the very existence of the hierocracy depended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

Ultimately, I would like to welcome them into our hierocracy.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaming Void]

And as Ellezelin was a hierocracy, he was also faced with endorsing a new cabinet for the planet’s civil government as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaming Void]

Island, under the yoke of hierocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference

Theocracy as a constitution is hierocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

The hierocracy towards which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prolegomena] Reference

Who wants to wind up living in a hierocracy?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaming Void]

The litterary, political, and military maneouvering of these medieval men has been portrayed, in our own century, variously as revolutionary, as a function of the growth and promotion of Roman canon law, an attempt to promote sacerdotal leadership over the laity, even outright hierocracy over secular rulers, as the promotion of a monastic ideal for all of society, or, in still another approach, as reifying persecution within Western society. 1 At the center of this deadly struggle upon which historians have heaped so many theses was a liturgy: the rite of investing a bishop with his staff and ring, the symbols of his office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform"] Reference