Church and State in the New Testament

Abstract

‘The dilemma how to serve the higher good when in the hour of trial has a poignant reality that words can never recapture nor outsiders ever really fathom, and those who stand at a safe distance are in no position to pass judgment. The Moscow Patriarchate, the Ail-Union Council of Baptists, and the Jewish Rabbinate, for example, have problably been no less heroic in shouldering the agony and burden of accommodation than Orthodox resisters, Baptist reformers, and spokesmen of the new voice of Soviet Jewry have been in their refusal to yield any ground to the totalitarian claims of the State’.¹