Abstract:
The origin and development of the idea of Christianity as a single society
in the Roman Empire under the leadership of the state or emperor and
the Church or pope is investigated. The idea developed differently in the
East and the West. In the East it developed into Caeseropapism and in
the West, although linked to a notion of theocracy, it developed into
ecclesiocracy or papalcracy: both being caricatures.
