Provocative Pamphlets No. 82. Ministries with Churches in Victoria and Auckland, N.Z. followed. Mr. Williams commenced lecturing at the College of the Bible in 1939 and was appointed Principal in 1945. M.A. We are reminded by both Jesus and Paul that we are citizens of two worlds. There is no need for anyone to tell us that we belong to a kingdom of this world.
Life involves a tension.
It has to be lived in relation to both God and Caesar. Here is the clear suggestion that the State is at once the beloved and the enemy. Communist theory regards the State as a product of class conflict. It is a necessary evil, a coercive instrument to handle the conflict of classes. Its function is particularly to serve as an instrument by which the ruling class keeps other classes in subjection.