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S04E05: HUM 223 Wk 3: Are Kings Gods? (Louis XIV, Lex, Rex, The Enlightenment, John Locke, & More)
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S04E05: HUM 223 Wk 3: Are Kings Gods? (Louis XIV, Lex, Rex, The Enlightenment, John Locke, & More)
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A French bishop tells Louis XIV he’s a god, Bible in hand. A dying Scottish minister, his own book already burned by the public hangman, answers with the opposite argument from the same Scripture. Trace the line from Samuel Rutherford’s Lex, Rex through John Locke to the Declaration of Independence—and the New Testament verse that quietly corrects them both.
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Enlightenment, divine right of kings, Bossuet, Louis XIV, Versailles, Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex, social…
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