In defeating `` Louis Capet '', John Tower's victory in Texas signals, once again, the end of the divine right of Liberalism.

A romantic is one who thinks the world is divinely inspired and all he has to do is find the right key, and then divine justice and altruism will appear.

It is therefore believed that he has both the right and ability to receive divine inspiration ( through the Holy Spirit ) for the ward under his direction.

It is suggested that had Elihu appeared in the original source, his spirited and virtuous defence of the divine right to punish would have been rewarded by God in the conclusion, or at the very least mentioned.

It supported a hierarchical society with a monarch who ruled by divine right.

Royalists supported absolute monarchy, arguing that the sovereign governed by divine right.

One long-delayed result was an end to the belief in the divine right of kings.

The divine right of kings was dealt a blow from which it never completely recovered.

European monarchs then gained power as the Catholic Church was stripped of temporal power and was replaced by the divine right of kings.

The doctrine of the divine right of kings was introduced as late as the 17th century, proposing that kings rule by divine decree ; Japanese Emperors ruled by divine mandate until the inception of the Japanese constitution after World War II

The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of kingship, is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy.

With the rise of nation-states and the Protestant Reformation, the theory of divine right justified the king's absolute authority in both political and spiritual matters.

The theory of divine right was abandoned in England during the Glorious Revolution of 1688 – 89.

The Scots textbooks of the divine right of kings were written in 1597-98 by James VI of Scotland before his accession to the English throne.

The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of kingship, is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy.

One passage in scripture supporting the idea of divine right of kings was Romans 13.

The concept of divine right incorporates, but exaggerates, the ancient Christian concept of " royal God-given rights ", which teach that " the right to rule is anointed by God ", although this idea is found in many other cultures, including Aryan and Egyptian traditions.

The French prelate Bossuet made a classic statement of the doctrine of divine right in a sermon preached before King Louis XIV:

This concept partly lived on in the divine right of kings but was much undermined and attenuated by the cutting away of the spiritual arm, turning it into a mere department of state, subsidiary to the king.

It was similar to the European notion of the divine right of kings in that both sought to legitimize rule from divine approval.

However, while the divine right of kings granted unconditional legitimacy, the Mandate of Heaven was conditional on the just behavior of the ruler.

it is Astarte, Ishtar, Venus, Yahwe, Dionysus, Christ, the mysterious and divine orgone energy flowing through the body of the universe.

Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.

It is through them that we have become aware of the divine humanity in man, and therefore, that most people are noble, helpful and good.

`` The primary objective of non-violence '', writes the outstanding Mennonite ethicist, `` is not peace, or obedience to the divine will, but rather certain desired social changes, for personal, or class, or national advantage ''.

( The new nature, received at the time of regeneration, is divine and holy, and as the believer lives under the power of this new nature he does not practice sin.

The new birth is the impartation of the divine nature.

To eat is human, the nation is learning to think, to survive divine.

In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.

The divine light can still be seen even in the most catastrophic events, and a Christian hope is granted to all.

While down there, along with the dead, he is shown the place where the wrongly convicted reside, the fields of sorrow where those who committed suicide and now regret it reside, including Aeneas ' former lover, the warriors and shades, Tartarus ( where the titans and powerful non-mortal enemies of the Olympians reside ) where he can hear the groans of the imprisoned, the palace of Pluto, and the fields of Elysium where the descendants of the divine and bravest heroes reside.

In connection with this Jehovah's Witnesses also believe the Holy Spirit is not an actual person but rather is God ’ s divine breath, God's power in action.

One of his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).

The majority Arminian view accepts classical theism – the belief that God's power, knowledge, and presence have no external limitations, that is, outside of His divine nature.

This is particularly manifest in the weightier emphasis which he lays upon human sin and divine grace, and in the place which he assigns to faith in the individual Christian life.

* 1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a " divine wind " for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.

The Platonist seemed to outweigh the Aristotelian in Alan, but he felt strongly that the divine is all intelligibility and argued this notion through much Aristotelian logic combined with Pythagorean mathematics.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

It reflected Alfred's own belief in a doctrine of divine rewards and punishments rooted in a vision of a hierarchical Christian world order in which God is the Lord to whom kings owe obedience and through whom they derive their authority over their followers.

From a baroque standpoint it is a moment of divine intervention in the affairs of man.

" Those who believe in the Trinity, consider Christ a pre-existent divine hypostasis called the Logos or the Word.

:: Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God, — that is, the triply divine Principle, Love.

They governed with divine power called mana.

His ministry affirms the divine inspiration of the Bible, the authority of Tradition, and says "... that there is a place within the full life and ministry of the Christian Church for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Christians, both those who are called to lifelong celibacy and those who are partnered.

" According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.

Chapter 1, Article 3 of the Confession reads: " The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the Canon of Scripture ; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.

He was the keeper of the divine powers called Me, the gifts of civilization.

Christian philosophy, on the contrary, so quickens the human mind that without difficulty it pierces the heavens, and, illumined with divine light, contemplates first, the eternal source of light, and in its radiance all created things: so that we experience with the utmost pleasure of mind that we have been called, as the Prince of the Apostles says, out of darkness into his admirable light, and believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable.

It is also called supernatural healing, divine healing, and miracle healing, among other things.

Matthew's own Christian community may have called themselves Nazoreans, a sect mentioned by Jerome and others: like Matthew, they maintained a " high Christology " ( i. e., they stressed Jesus ' divine nature over his human-ness ), and did not demand that Gentile Christians observe all the Law.

It is generally believed that the first " professional " astronomers were priests, and that their understanding of the " heavens " was seen as " divine ", hence astronomy's ancient connection to what is now called astrology.

called י ִ ש ְׂ ר ָ א ֵ ל, Israel ( Yisra ` el, meaning " one that struggled with the divine angel " ( Josephus ), " one who has prevailed with God " ( Rashi ), " a man seeing God " ( Whiston ), " he will rule as God " ( Strong ), or " a prince with God " ( Morris ), from, " prevail ", " have power as a prince ").

In the game's cosmology humans can regain their lost divine status through a game concept called Awakening in which characters with an extremely high or low mental balance are no longer restrained by the rules of the Illusion.

In the prefatory essay to the Kokin Wakashū compilation of poetry, Ki no Tsurayuki called him Uta no Hijiri — a divine poet equal to the Nara period poet Yamabe no Akahito, a high regard echoed by later poets such as Fujiwara no Teika.

In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino (" the divine one ").

In Neoplatonism, it is often said, all life returns to the source to be stripped of individual identity, a process called henosis, However, in orthodox Christianity, theosis restores the Likeness of God in man by grace ( by being united to God the Holy Trinity through participation in His divine energies ).

The process, rather than the outcomes, seemed to drive his explicit behaviour and odd use of language, e. g., he called God the " Supreme Fascist ", echoing the role Whitehead assigned, as if the synthesis of Erdős and collaborators in seeking proofs, creating sense-datum for other mathematicians, was itself the expression of a divine will.

At that council the debate over Christ's human and divine natures turned on whether Mary could legitimately be called the " Mother of God " or only " Mother of Christ ".

The particular characteristic of Proclus ' system is his insertion of a level of individual ones, called henads between the One itself and the divine Intellect, which is the second principle.

In discussing 9 founders of major faith traditions ( Moses, Zoroaster, Lao-zu, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Krishna, Jesus, and Muhammad ), which he called " mediators between the human and the divine ," Macquarrie wrote that:

Sharia, in its strictest definition, is a divine law, as expressed in the Qur ' an and Muhammad's example ( often called the sunnah ).

Pherecydes of Syros ( 6th century BC ), believed that there were three pre-existent divine principles and called the water also Chaos .< ref >< DK B1a ></ ref > In the language of the archaic period ( 8th – 6th century BC ), arche ( or archai ), designates the source, origin or root of things that exist.

A single divine Creator, called variously Mawu or Nana Buluku is an androgynous being who in one tradition bore seven children and gave each rule over a realm of nature-animals, earth, and sea-or else these children are inter-ethnic and related to natural phenomena or to historical or mythical individuals.