ATC 1998 "No Power but of God" Political Theology: The Christian's Relation to the State

The papers contained in this book were presented to the eighteenth Atlantic Theological Conference in Charlottetown, P.E.I., in June of 1998. The topic of the conference was "Political Theology". The thought-provoking essays in this volume present to Christians of today an opportunity to examine the difficult and important questions of the Christian's relation to the State, which have faced the Church since the earliest days of Christianity. As the Rev'd Gavin Dunbar says, "In one respect, the coming of the Kingdom of God in Christ, on earth as it is in heaven, brings a long story to its close...Yet on the other hand, the coming of the Kingdom raises a whole host of new questions and opportunities, new challenges and problems. The question is not whether the Kingdom has come, but how that coming shall be understood, and what its implications are for the ordering of human life." (from No Power but of God p.17).