Spiritual Warfare § 2: The Church’s Task

The same Spirit that rested upon Jesus, rests upon the church, as Christ’s body. The church therefore bears responsibility in the struggle against evil. Yet our battle differs from Jesus’ in this regard: he overcame evil in his death and being resurrected; we witness to this victory. We have only to remind the “principalities and powers” (more [...]

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Spiritual Warfare § 1: Jesus as Spiritual Warrior

Any talk about spiritual warfare must begin with talk about Jesus. In him, we discover the enemy whom we’re fighting and God’s tactics for defeating that enemy.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me” (Lk 4.16-21). In this claim, Jesus evokes a traditional way of speaking about Israel’s religious/political leaders -  judges, prophets, and kings. [...]

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Bonhoeffer on Christian Political Responsibility § 2

Because all created things exist for the sake and purpose of Christ they are all subject to Christ’s commandment and claim. For the sake and purpose of Christ there is and ought to be worldly order in state, family and economy. For the sake of Christ the worldly order is subject to the commandment of [...]

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Another Sign of the End

I’ll come back to our discussion on Christian political responsibility, but I had to post this first.
 

Anyone dare to guess what or whom Moses was a basket case to? 

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Bonhoeffer on Christian Political Responsiblity

In his Ethics, which he was not able to complete, Bonhoeffer addresses the problem of Christian socio-political responsiblity with characteristic incisiveness, remaining, as always, radically Christocentric in his thinking,  in line with his Lutheran theological heritage. In a chapter entitled “‘Personal’ and ‘Real’ Ethos” he asks one of the questions  everyone who intends to think [...]

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