Divine law is any body of law that is perceived as deriving from a transcendent source, such as the will of God or gods – in contrast to man-made law...

Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity. What is or is not divine may be loosely defined,...

Divine justice, or divine law, is a law perceived as deriving from a transcendent source. Divine Justice may also refer to: Divine law Attributes of God...

In European Christianity, the divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of...

on the Scales of Justice held by Themis, the Greek personification of divine law and custom. She became the inspiration for modern depictions of Lady Justice...

law is law by the will of whoever made it, and thus there can equally be divine positive law as there is man-made positive law. Positive Law theory stems...

governed by Islamic law, also known as Sharia. Accordingly, sexual violation is regarded as a violation of moral and divine law. Islam divides claims...

Naturalis" (lit. 'Natural law'). Aquinas argues that because human beings have reason, and because reason is a spark of the divine (see: image of God), all...

Quran and hadith. In Arabic, the term sharīʿah refers to God's immutable divine law and this referencing is contrasted with fiqh, which refers to its interpretations...

Divine command theory (also known as theological voluntarism) is a meta-ethical theory which proposes that an action's status as morally good is equivalent...

Man-made law is law that is made by humans, usually considered in opposition to concepts like natural law or divine law. The European and American conception...

for "law", relying instead on the three-way distinction between divine law (thémis), human decree (nomos) and custom (díkē). Yet Ancient Greek law contained...

First Crusade. Divine law, any law that, according to religious belief, comes directly from the will of God, in contrast to man-made law. "God willing"...

and nomos "law") is a hypothetical Christian form of government in which society is ruled by divine law. Theonomists hold that divine law, particularly...

law is not adequate alone. The need for human behaviour to be directed made it necessary to have Divine law. Divine law is the specially revealed law...

moral precepts of divine law over the civil, ceremonial or judicial aspects, which may have been annulled as in theologies of grace over law. Examples of religiously...

biblical laws Divine law, any law that is understood as deriving from a transcendent source, such as the will of God or gods, in contrast to man-made law Theonomy...

The Law Divine is a 1920 silent British crime film directed by H. B. Parkinson and Challis Sanderson. The film is considered to be lost. H. V. Esmond as...

Shīʿa Muslims. The term Twelver refers to its adherents' belief in twelve divinely ordained leaders, known as the Twelve Imams, and their belief that the...

In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of the deities. Each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to...

law (those aspects of the moral law that may be discovered without divine revelation). Nevertheless, because God remains the true author of moral law...

law must be laid down. The divine law consists of an old and a new. Insofar as the old divine law contains the moral law of nature, it is universally...

activists/revivalists he preached that the teachings of the Qur'an and the Sunnah and divine law of Sharia must be implemented in all spheres of life, that the Caliphate...

divine manifestation in the personage of the "Imam of the Time" as the "Face of God", with the more literalistic Twelver group focusing on divine law...

sovereign); natural law and divine law confer upon the sovereign the right to rule. And the sovereign is not above divine law or natural law. He is above (i...

If an impediment is imposed by merely ecclesiastical law, rather than being a matter of divine law, the Church may grant a dispensation from the impediment...

World – Sustainable Diversity in Law (5th edition) ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199669837 Jacob Katz, Divine Law in Human Hands – Case Studies...

esoteric truth and intelligible divine reality, with the more literalistic Usuli and Akhbari groups focusing on divine law (sharia) and the deeds and sayings...

the root of man's moral intuition. Furthermore, he theorized that divine moral law was both transcendent and immanent within humans. Moralism, as a movement...

overtake Creon are not the result of his exalting the law of the state over the unwritten and divine law that Antigone vindicates, but are his intemperance...