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| | Talk:Divine Right of Kings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Divine Right of Kings refers to a worldwide doctrine claimed by nearly every monarch who has sat on any throne at any point in the past, that states as principle: The ruler is annointed by god(s) to rule his people. | | | One important aspect of the European concept of divine right of kings was that the king could not lose this right. | | | Divine right of kings says king is right and that the peasant leader can never be legitimate king. |
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| | The kings of Thailand claimed it from their gods, and the royalty of what we now call India relied on numerous gods to establish their divine right. | | | The words "divine right of kings" are English -- and are perhaps first mentioned in St. Augustine and other Catholic thinkers in an attempt to explain and preserve the power of the state -- however the idea for which they stand is worldwide. | | | which holds that the king is annointed, or appointed by God or Gods. |
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| | Working from biblical precedent (the divinely-ordainment of Saul and David), the Roman Catholic church was the inventor, and proponent, of the "Divine Right of Kings," the concept that kings ruled by God's will. | | | The German kings got the message, and the blessings of the Church. | | | In effect, the Church had the say-so as to who had the "divine right" to the throne. |
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| | King James VI & I on the Divine Right of Kings |
| | Kings are justly called Gods, for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of divine power upon earth. | | | In the scriptures, kings are called gods; and so their power, after a certaine relation, compared to the divine power. | | | In the Scriptures kings are called gods, and so their power after a certain relation compared to the Divine power. |
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http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/kjdivine.htm
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| | Absolutism and the Divine right of kings |
| | Most divine right theorists thought that monarchy was the best form of government, but conceded that God also upheld other forms of government. | | | Medieval political theorists had seen kings as deriving their authority from God, but as obliged to rule in accordance with law and in consultation with the nobility. | | | This power was held both to be natural (since every society in the world accepted it) and divine (since God endorsed it in the Bible). |
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| | The Divine Right of Kings |
| | The theory of the Divine Right of Kings aimed at instilling obedience by explaining why all social ranks were religiously and morally obliged to obey their government. | | | Although the theory of the Divine Right of Kings was perfectly coherent and treated as such by its exponents and opponents, it is often now dismissed as absurd. | | | The theory of the Divine Right of Kings was directed at convincing this literate and wealthy group that they should serve as royal officials, not try and seize power for themselves. |
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| | Bossuet, Divine Right of Kings |
| | Since their power comes from on high, kings should not believe that they are its masters and may use it as they wish; they should exercise it with fear and restraint as a thing which has come to them from God, and for which God will demand an account.... | | | It is the spirit of Christianity to cause kings to be revered with a type of religion, which Tertullian aptly calls "the religion of the second majesty." | | | This second majesty is but a token of the first, the divine, which, for the good of things human, has caused a certain part of its lustre to be imparted to kings. |
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http://www.iupui.edu/~histwhs/H114.dir/H114.webreader/H114.read.a.Bossuet.html
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| | The Open Door Web Site : History : James I and the Divine Right of Kings |
| | The greatest problem of James' reign (and that of his son, Charles) was that he believed in the Divine Right of Kings. | | | Charles I, who became king in 1625, also believed in the Divine Right of Kings. | | | On the contrary, the king and Archbishop wanted churches and church services to be more decorated and ornate. |
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http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/chap4002.html
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| | But the Egyptian priests told Herodotus that there were three divine dynasties which preceded the reign of the human kings: that of the gods, of the demigods, and of the heroes. | | | Ancient religious philosophy taught that government should try to follow the pattern set in the heavens or in the hierarchies of nature; and it was upon this fact that arose the early teaching of what became later known as the divine right of kings. | | | China too had its divine dynasties which preceded the human dynasties: thus the Chow rulers are placed at 1100 BC, but they were again preceded by the Sheng and the still earlier Hea (or Hia) dynasties. |
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| | English 233: Political parable in Moliere's TARTUFFE |
| | The theory of divine right of kings holds that kings are appointed by God to rule, and that they are solely accountable to God for the discharge of their duties. | | | The theory is a kind of secular equivalent of the ancient papal claim that supreme authority (in matters of faith and morals) derives from divine appointment: the king in his realm (like the pope in his) is a vicar of the universal monarch, God Himself. | | | “modern” theory of political legitimacy: the divine right of kings. |
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http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lyman/english233/Tartuffe-politics.htm
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| | divine right of kings -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), one of the principal French theorists of divine right, asserted that the king's person and authority were sacred; that his power was modeled on that of a father's and was absolute, deriving from God; and that he was governed by reason (i.e., custom and precedent). | | | The doctrine of divine right can be dangerous for both church and state. | | | For the state it suggests that secular authority is conferred, and can therefore be removed, by the church, and for the church it implies that kings have a direct relationship to God and may therefore dictate to ecclesiastical rulers. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9030680
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| | The enormous hidden costs to society of 'right-wing' political governance |
| | In 1609 King James VI of Scotland stunned people with his declaration regarding the 'divine right of kings', wherein he basically proclaimed such rulers were the lieutenants of God, and qualified as Gods themselves, and so were not required to answer or explain themselves to anyone. | | | A modernized version of the 'divine right of kings', with the fabulously wealthy being regarded as the new royals (or deities) to be served by everyone else. | | | If the 'divine right of kings' really doesn't represent the bedrock of modern US Republican ideology, it sure does offer an amazingly close parallel to whatever other ideas are at play there. |
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http://www.jmooneyham.com/brightref.html
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| | Debates - The Divine Right of Kings vs. Individual Rights |
| | Filmer was a strong advocate of the theory of the divine right of kings in the 17th century. | | | In this debate, Filmer presented a defense of the doctrine of the "divine right of kings" in 1680. | | | Intellectual Debate: The Divine Right of Kings vs. Individual Rights |
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http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Debates.php?Collection=10
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| | James Stuart True Law |
| | The King towards his people is rightly compared to a father of children, and to a head of a body composed of diners members: For as fathers, the good Princes, and Magistrates of the people of God acknowledged themselues to their subjects. | | | First, hee declares vnto them, what points of justice and equitie their king will breake in his behauiour vnto them: And next he putteth them out of hope, that wearie as they will, they shall not haue leaue to shake off that yoke, which God through their importunitie hath laide vpon them. | | | As the discourse and direction flowes from the head, and the execution according "hereunto belongs to the rest of the members, euery one according to their office: so is it betwixt a wise Prince, and his people. |
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| | Samuel Rutherford on God's Law and Political Authority -NRA |
| | Unfortunately, Rutherford compromised this strong doctrine when he posited the source of governing authority in "the people," an overreaction to the Divine Right teaching that kings are accountable to none but God. | | | , which was written in 1644, to refute a treatise on the Divine right of Kings by John Maxwell. | | | Rutherford's work represented a direct challenge to the 17th Century theory of the "Divine right of kings," but neither he nor Knox had much direct influence on the founding fathers of America. |
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| | LewRockwell.com Blog: Divine Right and Armageddon |
| | The “Divine Right of Kings” was actually manufactured by tyrants in the modern period, post-Hobbes. | | | In fact, the Spanish word for rights -- 'fueros' -- literally describes the rights that are 'outside of' the power of the king. | | | Its veneer of religious vocabulary masks a tyrannical, secular substance, which flows as “civil religion” from Rousseau through Strauss to W’s gnostic manipulation of the Apocalypse to cloak the urge for empire with a religious cover. |
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| | UK Constitution and Government: House of Stuart and the Commonwealth - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks |
| | James firmly believed in the Divine Right of Kings—the right of Kings to rule that supposedly came from God—so he did not easily react to critics in Parliament. | | | Charles, sharing his father's belief in the Divine Right of Kings, also moved toward absolutist policies. | | | He ruled alone for the next eleven years, which were referred to as the eleven years of tyranny. |
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| | Chapter Divine <i>to</i> Dodgson of D by Brewer's Readers Handbook |
| | Jacques Aymar of Crôle was the most famous of all diviners. | | | One great objection is this: In the Fourth Gospel the author does not name himself; in the Revelation he does so several times. | | | He lived in the latter half of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth. |
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| | The right of kings to govern was [thought to be] divine because it [apparently] came from God. | | | So, we learned that King James I of England wrote a doctrine called the divine right of kings. | | | And the English people may even have believed it until they got fed up of the divine right of kings to govern badly, and chopped off the head of King Charles I in 1649. |
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| | Political observers noted that Sobhuza did not refer to the Divine Right of Kings when he grabbed governing powers for the royal house, but said rule by a king was Swazi custom. | | | MBABANE, 22 Apr 2003 (IRIN) - King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch and unelected head of state, reasserted the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings during an Easter weekend religious observation that turned into an anti-democracy rally. | | | Noting "there is not a single verse in the Bible which says there should be a president ruling a country," the Reverend Mkhuluza Zwane was applauded when he told Mswati: "When people are given the right to choose, they always choose evil. |
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| | Charles I - The slide to war |
| | His determined belief in the Divine Right of Kings led to his dismissing parliament in 1629 and ruling without them. | | | Charles I came to the throne in 1625 after the death of his father, James I. Like his father, he believed in the Divine Right of Kings. | | | In November 1641, parliament presented the King with a list of complaints called the Grand Remonstrance that asked for the power of bishops to be reduced and for Charles' councillors to be men trusted by parliament. |
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| | Divine Right of Kings |
| | On the other hand, Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704) reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theory of the Divine Right of Kings, a theory which argued that certain kings ruled because they were chosen by God to do so and that these kings were accountable to no person except God. | | |  &, however, was reacting to an extreme situation and carried this argument to its farthest extent in his doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings. | | | This doctrine of absolutism would follow a tortured course through the eighteenth century culminating in the French Revolution of 1789-1792 and the beheading of Louis XVI, the king of France. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/DIVRIGHT.HTM
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| | TPMCafe Divine Right of Capital |
| | Her central insight, I think, is that this supremacy of the shareholder is no more natural or inevitable than was the Divine Right of Kings that came before. | | | For centuries, this assumption was as universal and unquestioned as the blueness of the sky. | | | Essentially, Kelly riffs on the Divine Right of Kings. |
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| | Divine Right Of Kings: The Human God Brings Order to Chaos |
| | The king also was the only person to be trusted with success in battle and in dealings with all other states, with other divines. | | | Despite the faith and trust of the people, Kings and Queens provided the governed with many opportunities to question their authority. | | | The people regarded the ruler, therefore, with an intense mystic reverence, a reverence which provided a firm foundation for the maintenance of organization and centralized government. |
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| | This philosophy was called the “divine right of kings.” Subjects of the king were expected to follow orders without questioning the kings’ wisdom. | | | His first duty ought to be, to cause Virtue, Justice, and Religion to reign with him, and wholly to apply himself to the happiness of his people, to raise and maintain the grandeur of so mighty a monarchy, to choose always, and reward those in whom he shall find a nation so strong and wise. | | | The kings and queens of Europe also exerted authority over the Christian churches in their lands. |
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| | Divine Right Diminishes Under Elizabeth |
| | However, it is severely stressed as the Divine provider and warrior ruler goes beyond the bounds of the group to the domination of or negotiation with other Divine warriors, other groups and other territories to become a warlord of a large state. | | | The nobles assisted the king by providing power on the ground which was supported by tradition in their estates and lands. | | | The Devaluation of the Divine Right: Power Sharing |
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| | Divine Right Of Kings |
| | Thus she crowned the kings of Europe, and her head, the Pope, blasphemously claimed the proud title of "King of kings and Lord of lords"--the infallible. | | | During the Jewish age Jehovah was Israel's king, the Most Holy apartment of the Tabernacle, and afterward of the Temple, representing his throne, from which he delivered his rulings through the priesthood. | | | When Protestantism sprang up it protested against many of her vices, and spurned her indulgences, disregarded her anathemas, but the right to rule over and appoint kings, and thus reign, was too sweet a pleasure to be cast aside. |
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| | The Open Door Web Site : History : Towards Civil War |
| | Previous Chapter : James I and the Divine Right of Kings | | | These included that the king should only appoint ministers who had been approved by Parliament, and that Bishops should have less power. | | | Parliament was angry and voted to throw the Bishops out of the House of Lords. |
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| | Divine Right of Capital |
| | The Divine Right of Capital questions the idea that achieving 15 percent returns for the wealthy is more important than paying employees a living wage or protecting a community’s water. | | | The Divine Right of Capital traces the fundamental ills of our corporate system to their source. | | | Indeed, "maximizing returns to shareholders" is universally accepted as a kind of divine, unchallengeable mandate. |
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| | Where before all governments relied on some variant of the Divine Rights of Kings for justification, now in the United States of America, a new government had redefined the purpose of government by redefining the plan of god. | | | The United States of American was founded on a radical new definition of the plan of god, a definition that destroyed the power of the Divine Right of Kings. | | | Even though England itself had evolved by the time of the American Revolution to be a limited monarchy, the king's authority to rule was still justified by the doctrine of Divine Right of Kings. |
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| | Heaven Sent - Does God endorse George Bush? By Steven Waldman |
| | Precisely nothing about divine will can be inferred by Bush's mere presence at this time, any more than the 'presence' of Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt or Adolf Hitler are inidicative of God's preference for those leaders in their times and places. | | | Even those who believe that God controls world events usually concede it is hard for humans to divine the intent of the Divine. | | | These could be external, like Sennachrib or Nebuchadnezzar, or they could be disastrously incompetent kings of Israel or Judah itself. |
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| | LiteratureClassics.com -- Essay -- The Importance Of The Abdication Scene in Marlowe's Edward-II |
| | Marlowe tries to prove that the king and state are separable and if a king is unworthy to rule people should have the right to depose him. | | | How unfortunate is the king who is imprisoned in his own land and by them who were once ruled by him. | | | Nor there is any reference to the king's responsibility towards God, a cornerstone of orthodox Elizabethan doctrine. |
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| | The Theory of the Divine Right of Kings | | | The Divine Right Of The Father: Incest In The White Afrikaner Tribe (Contemporary Women's Issues Database) | | | COLUMN: The Divine Right of Kings is alive and well (University Wire) |
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| | So the album Divine Rights of Kings was made on the belief that America is this mysterious being in Revelations. | | | January 2003 saw the release of "Divine Right Of Kings". | | | He felt there was any church that teaches that America could possibly be MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT. |
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| | But at a deeper level this new form of divine appointment asserts he is really serving because God miraculously orchestrated the outcome of the election. | | | That’s why the Constitution they wrote rejects the idea of “rule by divine right” and provides instead for a system whereby citizens govern themselves. | | | The founders who wrote the U.S. Constitution had some doubts about the divine rights of kings. |
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| | Divine Right of Kings, England (History) |
| | The doctinr, however, received a sharp setback with the expulsion of James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and a mortal blow in the French Revolution. | | | A few years later, Sir Robert Filmer presented a slightly different version of the doctrine, which became almost a bible to the adherents of the later kings of the House of Stuart. | | | Send comments about Divine Right of Kings / |
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| | THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS THE DIVINE ORDINATION OF GOVERNMENT The Parallels |
| | In its practical, rather than its mystical, aspects the doctrine can therefore be seen as an early form of the idea of national sovereignty and as an attempt to form a strong centralized executive. | | | In the 17th century the doctrine was supported by the English Royalists against the Parliamentarians, who maintained that the exercise of political power springs from the will of the people. | | | THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS THE DIVINE ORDINATION OF GOVERNMENT The Parallels |
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| | Divine Right of Kings |
| | After the Glorious Revolution the doctrine of Divine Right of Kings ceased to have much influence in Britain. | | | The idea of the Divine Right of Kings evolved in Europe during the Middle Ages. | | | the king had been appointed by God and people who disagreed with him were bad Christians. |
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| | Suburban Guerrilla » The Divine Right of Kings |
| | Suburban Guerrilla » The Divine Right of Kings | | | And now, he does it to protect his “right” to torture anybody, anywhere, for any reason. | | | 7 Responses to “The Divine Right of Kings” |
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| | CD Baby: BABYLON MYSTERY ORCHESTRA: Divine Right of Kings |
| | With "Mourning Glory" and "Divine Justice" the great empire is Judged and ultimately reaps her reward. | | | Never before has anyone dared to merge the worlds of politics and religion with such daring language ripped from todays headlines. | | | CD Baby: BABYLON MYSTERY ORCHESTRA: Divine Right of Kings |
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| | James I and the Doctrine of The Divine Right of Kings | | | "As the king had no standing army, and did not even attempt to form one, it would have been wise in him to avoid any conflict with his people. | | | But such was his indiscretion that, whlle he altogether neglected the means which alone could make him really absolute, he constantly put forward, in the most offensive form, claims of which none of his predecessors had ever dreamed. |
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| | Highway 62: The Divine Right of Kings and all that |
| | Highway 62: The Divine Right of Kings and all that | | | The Divine Right of Kings and all that | | | Thanks to Jon at Mae Mai for the link. |
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| | Absolutism |
| | According to the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings, a system of thought derived ultimately from medieval theories of kingship, certain kings ruled because they were specifically chosen by God to be kings. | | | In particular, the Reformation doctrines of individual liberty, the priesthood of all believers, in which everyone shared religious authority equally, and the Calivinist idea of "voluntary associations," spread political dissension and doubt across the face of Europe. | | | Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704) adapted the medieval concept of kingship in his theory of the Divine Right of Kings, which argued that the king ruled absolutely by will of God, and that to oppose the king in effect constituted rebellion against God. |
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| | Thomas Paine and "Common Sense" |
| | But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is, the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. | | | — It certainly hath no divinity in it. | | | Divine right meant that criticism of the king was a repudiation of God, and regicide, the killing of a king, or revolution, the removal of a king, were a grave offenses because they opposed the will of God. |
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