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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kingsIn European Christianity, the divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy. It stems from a specific metaphysical framework in which a monarch is, before birth, pre-ordained to inherit the crown. According to this theory of
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Khvarenah (Avestan: xᵛarənah, Persian: far) is an Iranian and Zoroastrian concept, which literally means glory, about divine right of the kings. This may stem from early Mesopotamian...
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Outside of Christianity, especially in religious societies (such as Muslim and Jewish societies), kings...
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In the sixteenth century, both Catholic and Protestant political thinkers alike began to question the idea of a monarch's "divine right".
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See more• Burgess, Glenn (October 1992). "The Divine Right of Kings Reconsidered". The English Historical Review. 107 (425): 837–861. doi:10.1093/ehr/cvii.ccccxxv.837.
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- Pharaohs and some other ancient Kings were thought to actually be gods or descendants of gods. That concept went away when monotheism spread. A medieval principle held that God gave the right in to rule in secular matters to political rulers. God gave the right to rule over spiritual matters to the Pope as head of the Church. This has been called t...
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The section on "Scots texts of James VI of Scotland" begins, 'The Scots textbooks of the divine right of kings were written in 1597–1598 by James VI of Scotland. His Basilikon Doron , a …
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- No mention of Hobbes? Wasn't Leviathan the major work that debunked the Divine Right of Kings and proposed that political *stuff* the entire article in seventeenth century English. (grin) --Ihcoyc
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