Gods, Kings, and Social Power: Political Ideology in Hinduism and the Biblical Worldview - Softcover

Paul, George Anthony; Vadde, Naveen Kumar

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798188922825

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Gods, Kings, and Social Power
Political Ideology in Hinduism and the Biblical Worldview
When political power is clothed in sacred language, who is permitted to judge the king?

Hindu political texts offer sober reflections on order, protection, punishment, administration, counsel, and the danger of wicked rulers. Yet they also manufacture the sacred king, elevate daṇḍa—the rod of punishment—and charge political authority with guarding varṇāśrama. If ruler, law, and social hierarchy reinforce one another, where is the institutional brake?

This volume examines legitimacy, divine kingship, unequal penalties, protective rule, caste enforcement, tyranny, and resistance across Dharmaśāstra, epic, and statecraft traditions. It presents the strongest case for kingship as protection against disorder, then asks whether protection remains just when one offense receives different punishment in different bodies.

The issue is not whether ancient India understood government. It did. The issue is whether political authority stands beneath a universal moral law or becomes the armed guardian of a sacred social order.

The biblical worldview neither deifies rulers nor abolishes authority. Kings remain creatures. Law stands above office. Partiality is condemned. The state bears a limited sword under God, and Jesus Christ alone is Lord.

This book is a direct challenge to every theology that turns political power into sacred immunity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798188922825
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 37
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