Editing Theocracy (section)

=== Geneva and Zürich (16th century) ===
Historians debate the extent to which [[Geneva]], Switzerland, in the days of [[John Calvin]] (1509–64) was a theocracy. On the one hand, Calvin's theology clearly called for separation between church and state. Other historians have stressed the enormous political power wielded on a daily basis by the clerics.<ref>{{cite book |first=Mark J. |last=Larson |title=Calvin's Doctrine of the State: A Reformed Doctrine and Its American Trajectory, The Revolutionary War, and the Founding of the Republic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItFLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 |year= 2009 |publisher= [[Wipf and Stock]] |pages= 1–20 |isbn= 978-1-60608-073-3 |via= [[Google Books]] |access-date=2015-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-19 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230119145801/https://books.google.com/books?id=ItFLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Harro |last=Höpfl |title=The Christian polity of John Calvin |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |date= 1985}}</ref>

In nearby [[Zürich]], Switzerland, Protestant reformer [[Huldrych Zwingli]] (1484–1531) built a political system that many scholars have called a theocracy, while others have denied it.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last= Walton |title=Zwingli's Theocracy |publisher=[[Toronto University Press]] |date=1967}}</ref>