The
Christian political task is to bring to the whole world, in the political way and for the political side of its life,
the blessing of Christ’s redemptive concern for the world. It is a task
directed to human society in the world. It is genuinely Christian and
meaningful only when it is an activity of service to the world, to all mankind.
For this reason it can never be a camouflage effort to further the interests of
particular Christian citizens, or more or less Christian communities or even of the Christian churches as they
are instituted in a particular time and space. Christian political action is,
as they say in the Netherlands, “Het volk ten daag,” this is to say, For the
good of the (whole) people. Coming out of the integral Christian task of
renewal, Christian political action
seeks, not as an activity of any instituted church or group of churches, but as
a political activity of the Body of
Christ, to reform the world in its political aspects, so that there too as
acknowledgement may come of the good and holy Law of God and that thus the
blessings that follow upon obedience may be showered upon the life of humanity.
H.
Evan Runner, Scriptural Religion and Political Task, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Wedge Publishing Foundation,
1974), 42.
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