sacerdotalism

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It is very significant that the mystics, who had undermined sacerdotalism, and in many other ways prepared the Reformation, were shouldered aside when the secession from Rome had to be organised.

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph

We properly apply the term sacerdotalism to any system the spirit of which seeks to place a human being in any intermediate character between God and man.

From Clara Maynard The True and the False - A Tale of the Times by Kingston, William Henry Giles

In Europe we are accustomed to associate the ideas of sacerdotalism, hierarchy and dogma, mainly because they are united in the greatest religious organization familiar to us, the Roman Catholic Church.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

It is not the habit that makes the monk, and it is possible for sacerdotalism to be as rampant among the most rigid of dissenters as in Church itself.

From Ireland and the Home Rule Movement by McDonnell, Michael F. J.

But I am digressing; for the fact is that I always see more of sacerdotalism afloat than I do on land. 

From Cities of the Dawn by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)