Hungarian Church Press, 1968 (20. évfolyam, 2. szám)

1968-06-01 / 2. szám

fiGP Vol.XX Dpc;uiaJ^2h__ibei_ — r-34 — (08007)

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social Justice, It would be a tragic omission not to call the peoples within the world of Chris nanity to repentance and conversion.

It is this p„eaching and obedience to this preaching that will mean the primary aid genuinely Christian contribution to the "new ethos" of mankind and, as the shaping of the public opinion of Christians ? a primary and genuine instrument in the work of bringing about a peaceful.and just world order*

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The fourth paragraph on page 27 should read as follows;

Subsequently he gave a detailed elaboration of this idea (Von weltlicher Obrigkeitj wie weit man ihr gehorsam schuldig sei, 1953» XI, 245-81), In this writing he contrasts the potestas terrena with the potestas ecclesiastical He writes; "We must divide Adames children and all men into two groups; the first belong to the Kingdom of God, the others to the kingdom of the world" (XI<, 239, 24c), God governs those belonging to His Kingdom with His right hand- with the Word, the sacraments, spiritual instrummts, by the means of grace, while those belonging to the world with the instrument cf the Daw, by force, (cp0 Edward' Cranz; An Essay on the Development of Luther*s Thought on Justice, Law and Society, Cambridge 1959, 164-165)o