Church and state
194Hadassah, Queen of Persia
27 May 2024
15:39¶ 58
“As you were reading I was going, “Wow, there would be so many people today that would balk at the fact that the government…”
16:30¶ 60
“Here what is interesting of course is that Ezra does not throw up his hands, or Zerubbabel or Joshua don’t go back and say,…”
17:26¶ 62
“A couple things there. First of all he does not include “…until I say otherwise.” He’s firmly committed. Second, he acknowledges God not simply…”
142The City of God Revisited
31 Oct 2022
22:07¶ 79
“Right, the frying pan and the fire. We do not want the State to come in and be more than the State is ordained…”
22:30¶ 80
“On the other hand, to say that Christianity is this private affair that never touches political matters or economic matters or finance or wealth…”
22:56¶ 81
“We will recognize that kings ought to recognize Jesus as their Lord, and that there are moral principles in scripture that they ought to…”
130Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 3) - The Separation of Church and State
8 Aug 2022
8:39¶ 26
“We’re talking here about the relationship of two covenant institutions, two things that God himself has established, particularly in Israel but there are broader…”
9:10¶ 28
“Yeah, they were not the same thing. Here the king is basically trying to give orders in the temple, and not only do the…”
10:24¶ 34
“Exactly. Kings don’t do this. Now, kings can ask that it be done. They can stand by there while it’s being done. They can…”
102The King as Priest
24 Jan 2022
30:46¶ 105
“Yeah. So we’ve talked about that, but the original design of this was to talk about the whole church/state thing, because here we have…”
34:46¶ 117
“And the state, for very practical military things that are their responsibility, needs this to happen. The state should want the intercession, the prayers,…”
38:36¶ 126
“The king was there to maintain justice, to protect the innocent, and to protect the nation from invasion. They’re both guarding something. The one…”
5Trinity (part 2)
2 Feb 2020
21:10¶ 61
“But the West continued to struggle between Church and State, and eventually Church, State and Academy, as the universities came along. It was never…”
21:49¶ 63
“And even when it got secularized, and that happened early in the Middle Ages, as well as later on in the Renaissance and Enlightenment,…”
22:15¶ 64
“There was really no contest in the East. It was a simple subordination of Church to State – the Emperor being the direct representative…”