What is Christianity? Lectures Delivered in the University of Berlin During the Winter-Term 1899-1900
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Law and legal ordinance, as resting on force only, on actual power and its exercise, have no moral value. Nev- ertheless Jesus did not command men not to sub- ject themselves to these authorities; they were to rate them according to their value, that is, accord- ing to their non-value, and they were to arrange their own lives on other principles, namely, on the opposite ; they were not to use force, but to serve. Here we have already passed to the general ground of legal ordinance, for it seems... to be an essential feature of all law to secure observance by force when called in question. When we approach the second point, the relation of the Gospel to legal ordinance generally, we again encounter two different views. One of them — in modern times more particularly maintained, in his ii6 What is Christianity? treatise on Canon Law, by Professor Sohm of Leip- zig, who presents points of contact with Tolstoi — lays down that in their respective natures law and the world of spiritual things are diametrically op- posed ; and that it is in contradiction with the char- acter of the Gospel and the community founded thereon that the Church has developed any legal ordinances at all.
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