Meaning of sacerdotalism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The spirit of the priesthood; devotion to priestly interests; priestcraft.
   countable, uncountable
2. The belief that priests can act as mediators between God and humankind.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“[T]hey tell⟳ fortunes, which practice, confined to a certain caste but forbidden to others, seems to be a kind of sacerdotalism.”

“You make⟳ me hate⟳ Christianity, or mysticism, or Sacerdotalism, or whatever it may be called, if it’s that which has caused this deterioration in you.”

“This was the phrase of that interesting mystic St. Paul (Saul) of Tarsus […] who did so much to pervert and enlarge the simpler cosmopolitan fraternalism of Jesus of Nazareth […] before it was finally overwhelmed and lost in the sacrificial sacerdotalism of formal Christianity.”

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