Sentences with phrase «ruled by divine right»

By contrast, some Anglican divines in the first part of the seventeenth century taught that kings ruled by divine right or authority.

In traditional Western thinking, people derived the virtue to obey the law because God, the Supreme Lawgiver, issued it through the king, who ruled by divine right.

God is not an absolute monarch who rules by divine right.

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Here, too, it is apparent, was the principle basic to the entire attitude of the prophets and other progressive thinkers toward the monarchy: the king ruled, not by divine right, but under divinely imposed responsibility.

Is it not by means of perversely appealing to such an undefined «criterion,» which is said to transcend «all rules of positive law» and «therefore [to] rest on some other foundation,» that the door is opened to the «transcendent» or «divine» or absolutist rights of those who do evil even as they claim to stand above the law?

They rule almost by divine right, shouldering the «white man's burden» even though they have not quite been requested to do so by the Indians.

But their separate worlds are thrown into chaos by the theft of Belshazzar's Scroll, an ancient relic that grants its possessor the divine right to rule over all the clans.

Nefarious tactics send Kai Tana and her teleporting Quarp Jet to a galaxy ruled by the evil Vokh, a tyrannical race of aliens who believe they have a divine right to rule the universe.