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Concept of the Divine Right Of Kings

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world began to pay more attention to the sometimes-subtle yet always absolute aspect of natural rights. Contrary to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who intensified  the medieval toward kingship. Bibliography lists 9 sources. TLCKingR.rtf DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS by (c) March 2002 -- for  more information on using this paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION The chaotic aspect of seventeenth century politics led to two completely disparate approaches  to political order: natural laws and divine rights. As humanitys natural rights evolved up to the time of Hugo Grotius, two equally adamant opinions continued to linger. It  was through Grotius enlightened philosophies that the world began to pay more attention to the sometimes-subtle yet always absolute aspect of natural rights. "It is beyond controversy among all  good men, that if the persons in authority command any thing contrary to Natural Law or the Divine Precepts, it is not to be done. For the Apostles, in saying  that we must obey God rather than men, appealed to an undoubted rule, written in the minds of all" (Grotius 165). Contrary to Grotius more humane perspective was that  of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "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" (Hooker, 2002). II. THE BASIS OF DIVINE RIGHTS  Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of meaning, the journey of understanding has come to represent myriad things to myriad people, ultimately rendering any universal explanation