HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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The idea that you need to repent for your sins
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The idea that leaders are chosen by God and you cannot go against them
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Paying money for forgiveness of sins
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -divine right of kings, in European history, a political doctrine in defense of monarchical absolutism, which asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
Detailed explanation-2: -The divine right of kings is a concept that has long been used as justification for monarchal absolutism. It posits that a king is divinely appointed by God and is accountable to God alone, giving him absolute or near-absolute power over his people.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Christian kings of Europe once believed they were answerable to no one except God. This idea became known as the divine right of kings. The divine right was an ancient idea that began with Europe’s medieval kings. They claimed that they had been chosen by God and were his representatives on Earth.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the Glorious Revolution, John Locke published his Two Treatises of Government, in which he argued against the theory of the Divine Right of Kings and advocated the social contract as a basis for creating governments.
Detailed explanation-5: -The divine right of kings is the absolutist idea that a monarch’s authority to rule comes directly from God and that he or she is not subject to any earthly authority.