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King and the Limit of Human Authority
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Hello! This is Pastor Don of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective!
Perhaps no more famous articulation of the limits of human government in recent memory than that of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, he responded to mainline White clergy who had criticized his tactics in fighting the “unjust laws” of the Jim Crow South.
In it, he reasons from the theology of St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Paul and Jesus Himself. A human law and the application of that human law are only valid to the degree that they…
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