Christianity, The Best Friend to Good Government
Who is the final arbiter for Christian conduct in politics?
Who is the final arbiter for Christian conduct in politics?
If we find Witherspoon guilty on these specific charges, we will not easily acquit the New Testament.
Not many passages in the New Testament speak directly to political order. The first part of the thirteenth chapter of Romans is perhaps the most famous. I would like to focus in this essay on vv. 3-4, which may appear prima facie to be something of an interpretive crux. Are these verses descriptive or prescriptive? That is, are they simply declarative, or are they imperatival, telling us what magistrates ought to do?
