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Calvin on Resistance to Tyrannical Rulers / Bonhoeffer a Martyr?

David Engelsma·2011-06-01
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Calvin on Resistance to Tyrannical Rulers With disappointment, I note that as of a couple issues following, none have responded to David Engelsma's rejection of martyr status for Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- who was executed for plotting to take the life of Adolf Hitler. This reader salutes Engelsma for forthrightly stating the conservative Calvinist view on (violent) civil disobedience, which would leave him in the definite minority as far as general Christian opinion re Bonhoeffer is concerned....

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David Engelsma
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2011-06-01

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Romans
Romans 13Romans 13:1-2Romans 13:1-7
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