Sokurov presents the emperor as effete and detached he mumbles to himself while piddling away the war years on marine biology and dramatizes his unquestioned authority over obsequious underlings, from servants to military commanders, on the basis of his ostensible divinity.

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At the United Theological College, where Wright earned his doctorate of divinity, he studied under the Rev.

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Jesus himself seemed unwilling to answer questions about his royal status or divinity.

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In 2003, Samuel Smith Jr. of East Chicago, Indiana, included his business card as Indiana State Senator and another for his job as Director of the Divinity Funeral Home.

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He was awarded a doctorate in divinity by Cambridge and spent his last ten years as Dean of St Paul's.

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Martin Marty, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, says that by pursuing a church post, Wright went against his university training, which had been preparing him to teach.

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