Governments possess authority, if for no other reason, then to preserve human life (see Gen. You might call it jurisdictional overlap. Here’s why it’s a difficult topic from a biblical perspective: both the government and our churches have a legitimate biblical claim on the territory of gatherings.
WHY THIS IS TOUGH: JURISDICTIONAL OVERLAP Just this week I heard pastors in three separate conversations ask this question.
Yet a darker question sometimes follows: “If the government continues to say we cannot meet, when do we as churches engage in civil disobedience by gathering anyway?” And pastors have begun to ask each other, “When can our churches gather again?” The stock market leaps a couple percentage points at the slightest whisper of a vaccine. State governments think about pathways to opening up. Vanhoozer, promotes evangelical contributions to systematic theology, seeking fresh understanding of Christian doctrine through creatively faithful engagement with Scripture in dialogue with church.As the COVID-19 stay-at-home quarantines tarry, folks are getting restless. Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture, edited by Daniel J. Political Church heralds a new era in political theology. Drawing on covenant theology and the "new institutionalism" in political science, Leeman critiques political liberalism and explores how the biblical canon informs an account of the local church as an embassy of Christ's kingdom. Jonathan Leeman sets out to address these questions in this Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture volume. What do we mean by politics and the political? What are the limits of the church's political reach? What is the nature of the church as an institution? How do we establish these claims theologically? Liberationists, Anabaptists, Augustinians, neo-Calvinists, Radical Orthodox, and others continue to discuss the matter. Theologians have been debating this claim for years.
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