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[1] [2] Monarchianism (from the Greek monarkhia, meaning "ruling of one," and -ismos, meaning "practice or teaching") stresses the absolute, uncompromising unity of God in contrast to the doctrine of the Trinity, [1] [6] which is often lambasted as veiled tritheism by nontrinitarian Christians and other monotheists.
Divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy in Western Christianity up until the Enlightenment. It is also known as the divine-right theory of kingship .
Divine kingship is related to the concept of theocracy, although a sacred king need not necessarily rule through his religious authority; rather, the temporal position itself has a religious significance behind it. The monarch may be divine, [1] become divine, [2] or represent divinity to a greater or lesser extent. [3]
Monarchy, especially absolute monarchy, is sometimes linked to religious aspects; many monarchs once claimed the right to rule by the will of a deity (Divine Right of Kings, Mandate of Heaven), or a special connection to a deity (sacred king), or even purported to be divine kings, or incarnations of deities themselves (imperial cult).
Lastly, since God is a spirit, it is held that the Holy Spirit should not be understood as a distinct person but rather should be understood as the one God who is a person in action in the world. Modalistic Monarchianism is closely related to Sabellianism and Patripassianism , two ancient theologies condemned as heresy in the Great Church and ...
A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, reigns as head of state for life or until abdication.The extent of the authority of the monarch may vary from restricted and largely symbolic (constitutional monarchy), to fully autocratic (absolute monarchy), and may have representational, executive, legislative, and judicial functions.
Revering the king as god incarnated on earth is the concept of devaraja. Devaraja (Sanskrit: देवराज, romanized: Devarāja) was a religious order of the "god-king," or deified monarch in medieval Southeast Asia. [1] The devarāja order grew out of both Hinduism and separate local traditions depending on the area. [2]
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