A House Divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran Perspectives on the Sword

Journal of Legal Education

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-38

  Smolin, David M ^a  

^a SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (31)

1. Matthew 5:3, 5:10.
2. Matthew 26:52.
3. Romans 12:17; Matthew 5:39.
4. Romans 13:4.
5. See Henry Chadwick, The Early Church 126 (Grand Rapids, 1967); Michael Grant, Constantine the Great 138-41 (London, 1993).
6. See Henry Chadwick, The Early Church 126 (Grand Rapids, 1967); Michael Grant, Constantine the Great 138-41 (London, 1993).
7. The Schleitheim Confession, in Creeds of the Churches, 3d ed., ed. John H. Leith, 282, 287-88 (Atlanta, 1982).
8. 1 John 2:15; see also 1 John 2:16.
9. See generally Denny Weaver, Becoming Anabaptist (Scottdale, Pa., 1987); James M. Stayer, Anabaptists and the Sword, 2d ed. (Lawrence, 1976). In a somewhat analogous way, the disastrous Munster Kingdom of 1534-35 confirmed the wisdom of the nonrevolutionary Anabaptists of the !ow countries, and caused Anabaptists of that region to give up the sword.
10. See generally Denny Weaver, Becoming Anabaptist (Scottdale, Pa., 1987); James M. Stayer, Anabaptists and the Sword, 2d ed. (Lawrence, 1976). In a somewhat analogous way, the disastrous Munster Kingdom of 1534-35 confirmed the wisdom of the nonrevolutionary Anabaptists of the !ow countries, and caused Anabaptists of that region to give up the sword.
11. See Thieleman J. van Braght, The Bloody Theater: or, Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians . . . , trans. Joseph F. Sohm, 15th ed., 416-20 (Scottdale, Pa., 1987) (1660).
12. See David P. Gushee, The Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: A Christian Interpretation (Minneapolis, 1994).
13. On Governmental Authority (1523), in The Protestant Reformation, ed. Hans Joachim Hillerbrand, 43, 48 (New York, 1968).
14. Id. at 52.
15. Id. at 53.
16. Id. at 61.
17. See generally Carl E. Braaten, Justification: The Article by Which the Church Stands or Falls 171-82 (Minneapolis, 1990); Carl E. Braaten, God in Public Life: Rehabilitating the "Orders of Creation," First Things, Dec. 1990, at 32.
18. See generally Carl E. Braaten, Justification: The Article by Which the Church Stands or Falls 171-82 (Minneapolis, 1990); Carl E. Braaten, God in Public Life: Rehabilitating the "Orders of Creation," First Things, Dec. 1990, at 32.
19. 1 Corinthians 13:7.
20. Schleitheim Confession, supra note 6, at 288.
21. See id. at 288-89.
22. See id. at 289.
23. See 2 John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T. McNeill, bk. IV, ch. XX, 1485-521 (Philadelphia, 1960).
24. See id., ch. XX, ¶ 3, 1488 (civil government has the "duty of rightly establishing religion" and "prevents idolatry, sacrilege against God's name, blasphemies against his truth, and other public offenses against religion from arising and spreading among the people").
25. See id., ch. XX, ¶¶ 23-32, 1510-21.
26. See, e.g., Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism (Grand Rapids, 1931) (based on six lectures originally given in 1899 at Princeton University).
27. See Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae), reprinted in The Documents of Vatican II, ed. Walter M. Abbott, 672 (New York, 1960).
28. See The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics as Gospel (Notre Dame, 1984).
29. See John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, Origins, Apr. 6, 1995, at 689.
30. See, e.g., Thomas Molnar, Paganism and Its Renewal, Intercollegiate Rev., Fall 1995, at 28. Molnar, a Hungarian, is speaking of trends in the entire Western world, not only America.
31. See Ephesians 6:10-20.