papist
Papist is a term derived from the word Pope for Catholics , which arose in Protestantism during the Reformation in the 16th century and was common in the time of controversial theology as a mostly disparagingly used battle term . The corresponding abstraction is papism .
The expression deliberately reduces Catholicism to the papacy, which is viewed as an outstanding distinguishing feature. From a Protestant point of view, this was a militant-critical reference to the total subordination and submission of the Roman Catholics to the Pope as the absolute head of the church. A similar, but less polemically related and not solely focused on the papacy, external name used by Catholics in early modern confessional disputes was the term "Old Believers". In a more moderate understanding that familiar remained until the 19th century and especially in the debates leading up to the dogma of papal teaching and primacy of jurisdiction on the First Vatican Council (1870) played a role, Popery is as synonymous with Ultramontanism conceived and the expression related to the priority of spiritual (papal) over secular (imperial) power claimed by the papacy. In the German-speaking world, the term papist is rarely used today, although it is sometimes used ironically. In the English-speaking world, too, it seems unusual and strange, while it is still used today in French publications on papal history.
literature
- Georg Denzler : Papism. In: Philippe Levillain (Ed.): The Papacy. To Encyclopedia. Volume 2. Routledge, London / New York 2002, ISBN 0-415-92230-5 , pp. 1107-1110.
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry papist in Early New High German Dictionary demand, in January 2020th
- ↑ Bernard McDinn ( University of Chicago ): Review of Levillain, Philippe, ed. The Papacy. To Encyclopedia. 3 vols. New York: Routledge 2002. In: The Journal of Religion 83 (2003), pp. 628-630; here: 629.