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Divine Right may refer to:
  • The Divine right of kings
    Divine Right of Kings
    The divine right of kings or divine-right theory of kingship is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God...

    , the doctrine that a monarch derives his or her power directly from God
  • Episcopal polity
    Episcopal polity
    Episcopal polity is a form of church governance that is hierarchical in structure with the chief authority over a local Christian church resting in a bishop...

    , the doctrine that is required in the church jure divino, i.e. by the command of God
  • Divine Right (game)
    Divine Right (game)
    Divine Right is a fantasy board wargame designed by Glenn A. Rahman and Kenneth Rahman. The game was first published in 1979 by TSR, Inc. and a 25th Anniversary Edition was published in 2002 by The Right Stuf International.-Overview:...

    , a fantasy wargame
  • Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday, a comic book
  • Divine Right, an anthology of short fiction in the Merovingen Nights
    Merovingen Nights
    Merovingen Nights is a series of shared world science fiction books set in writer C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe. There are eight books in the series, a novel by Cherryh, Angel With the Sword, and seven short fiction anthologies which Cherryh edited...

     series of science fiction books