Comments on: Just War http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2012/04/26/just-war/ Theology you can eat and drink Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Mike Bull http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2012/04/26/just-war/comment-page-1/#comment-18383 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:35:22 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=9674#comment-18383 Seems to me that the problem there was the Church identifying with the State “spatially,” that is, having a parachurch centre (or centres) of authority on earth instead of in heaven (note that after AD70, true apostolic authority resided by the Spirit in the Scriptures and those who obeyed them). Heretics must be urged to submit to Christ rather than to a central earthly power, and such submission is expressed to the local Church. In God’s eyes, the Roman Church could only ever be “the Church at Rome,” not a central vicarious authority. That was done away with the Temple.

Repentance and forgiveness was the solution for the question of the traditores. Christ forgave Peter. If it had been dealt with at that personal level, that is, local Church discipline, the institutional problem would most likely not have arisen at all.

]]> By: Murph http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2012/04/26/just-war/comment-page-1/#comment-18382 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:06:32 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=9674#comment-18382 War wasn’t declared against the Donatists and the Donatists were under Roman rule and in violation of the law. I don’t see how the Just war theorem applies.

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