Kara’s Reviews > Reformed Social Ethics: Perspectives on Society, Culture, State, Church, and the Kingdom of God > Status Update

‘Thus it is a militant kingdom, one that cannot simply incorporate something just as it is, but must conquer and wrest from the dominion of sin everything it embraces. Since it is spiritual in nature, however, it employs only spiritual weapons. For its expansion, the Kingdom of God recognizes no other authority than the almighty power of divine grace.’ -Chp on Kingdom of God,p184

“Christians themselves were the best missionaries,through their confession & life, through their courage & steadfastness, especially through their martyrdom;their blood was the seed of the church;and that church itself in its totality was the strongest instrument of missions.” P155

P 138 speaks to the Belgian Confession statement that’s in disagreement as wrongly perceived going back to Augustine, then wrongly passed to Calvin on down…

‘Christ opposed & condemned all efforts to extend his kingdom or to defend it by outward force, because it conflicted with the nature of his kingdom. Christ explicitly taught the parable of the wheat & the weeds to prove that this principle not only was valid during his sojourn on earth, while he was in the state of humiliation, but was the permanent constitution for his kingdom’ p137

In chapter on the State, he gets into views on war, pacifism, government, Christian perspective on it all and specifically WW1 thoughts…

Morality/Justice relationship p123-4