St. Paul, the apostle to the gentiles, has bequeathed guidelines for both personal and political behavior to individual citizens and to states that have retained their relevance to humanity to this day. However, his statement in Romans 13 that "the powers-that-be are ordained of God" has been interpreted in conflicting ways, especially since the time of Martin Luther in sixteenth-century Germany. Luther's occasional insistence that the ruler had to be obeyed unquestionably led to a politic...

by John A. Moses

In this collection of essays the author combines the critical eye of a professional historian with the passion of a dismayed churchman in his analysis of the current malaise of the Anglican Church in Australia. His analysis is indebted to his study of totalitarianims in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, as he calls for a recovery of tolerance.