The Divine Right of Kings and the Moral Obligation of Obedience in the Oath Controversy

• In Event: Political Theology and Theological Politics

Brief Overview

In their contributions to the Oath of Allegiance controversy, Jesuit theorists downplay or reject earlier natural-law resistance theories. Instead, they affirm divine-right theories of royal power, civil obedience, and the possibility of resistance.

Author

• Evelyn Ann Boyden, Harvard University