| Theodore Gerhardt Tappert - 1959 - 742 páginas
...joyfully, and not sadly, for that would be of no advantage to you" (Heb. 13:17). GOVERNING AUTHORITIES1 4 "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities....appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. He who is in authority does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath... | |
| Wilhelm Pauck - 1969 - 428 páginas
...state. The authority of this type of laws which ought to be acknowledged Paul teaches in Rom. 13:1-3 when he says: "Let every person be subject to the...appointed; and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad." For the duty of civil magistrates and laws... | |
| Roger Neville Williams - 1971 - 420 páginas
..."I used to go to the chaplain," he explains, "and he'd get out the Bible and open it to Romans 13: 'Let every person be subject to the governing authorities....Therefore, he who resists the authorities resists God . . .' " He got the same story from three different chaplains— it's right there in the Bible.... | |
| A. John Simmons - 1981 - 256 páginas
...different.2 The doctrine of St. Paul was nearly universally accepted, by political theorist and layman alike: Let every person be subject to the governing authorities....God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.3 The political authority of kings was believed to be granted by God, and the duties of citizens... | |
| Walter A. Kaufmann - 1978 - 482 páginas
...What is surprising is that, in his Theologie des Neuen Testaments, Bultmann ignores Romans 13.1 f.: "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities....authorities resists what God has appointed, and those that resist will incur judgment." Verses like these and Paul's "as if not," which comes close to being... | |
| Steven Ozment - 1980 - 473 páginas
...the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite and such biblical sanctions of government as Romans 13:1: "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities;...and those that exist have been instituted by God." Within the medieval church, Ullmann identifies the descending view of government with the canon lawyers,... | |
| Joseph P. Schultz - 1981 - 430 páginas
...their followers took their cue from the famous passage of Paul's Epistle to the Romans (chap. 13). Let every person be subject to the governing authorities,...appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority?... | |
| 2006 - 260 páginas
...the common good of the society. 1 899. The authority required by the moral order derives from God: "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities....God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment."17 1 900. The duty of obedience requires all to give due honor to authority and to treat... | |
| Alistair Kee - 2006 - 242 páginas
...that is the most significant fact of all. When writing to the church in Rome Paul commends the empire. Let every person be subject to the governing authorities....Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God had appointed, and those who resist will incur judgement. (Rom. 13: 1-2) But reflect for a moment:... | |
| David Von Drehle - 2006 - 500 páginas
...Scripture: Chapter 13 of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans was a favorite of the pro-death-penalty pastors. "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities....and those that exist have been instituted by God. Rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. . . . If you do wrong, be afraid, for he does... | |
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