Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Research Paper

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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet was a French bishop and renowned for his sermon on advocating the Divine Rights of Kings and political absolutism. Literally, it states that the political authority was derived from religious authority. The kings were selected and they acted as the minister of God on earth, which means that the will of kings was the will of God, what the king said and behaved was the prophets of God, and any attempts to go against or restrict the power of kings were the sacrilege of God. In such way, the king set up their absolute authority on ruling and helped established the monarchy in England subjecting to the religious( or political authority) rather than the will of people. The theory of Divine Right of Kings was prevailing in

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