The Divine Right of Kings drew extensively from key biblical passages interpreted as supporting royal authority directly from God. Romans 13:1-2 became particularly influential: ...

The Divine Right of Kings is a very old concept, in fact, thousands of years old. It is, in a nutshell, “a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism, asserting that a monarch is subject to ...

This undermines the divine right of kings claiming to rule as God’s prophet on Earth. They can do no wrong, transcending their plebeian subjects in authority and stature.

The medieval theory of the divine right of Kings lays claim to the absolute authority vested in a monarch by the Divine insomuch as their right to govern in an unelected and unaccountable fashion. At ...

What if the divine right of kings enabled the monarch to write any law, prosecute any person and impose any punishment he wished for real or fanciful or even imagined crimes?

Unfortunately for all of us, the principle of Divine Right of Kings now manifests as the Divine Right of Wealth. An ...

In Two Treatises of Government (1689), provided extensive biblical and philosophical critique against divine-right absolutism. Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) Early-16th century ...