The Fragility of Tolerant Pluralism by Andrew Fitz-Gibbon

Author:Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

His view of government also meant that secular government could punish for religious crimes. He acknowledged this in An Earnest Christian Appeal to Schaffhausen 1524:But if I should be found to be in the wrong, your Honors have sword, fire, and water that can cut, burn, and drown here as well as elsewhere; in accord with the circumstances of the offence you should then not let me go without punishing me with prison and death, and then you could indeed answer for it to God and to everyone.76

Hubmaier also addresses the problem of bad government. When the government becomes tyrannical, obedience to God has priority over obedience to government:Paul also calls authority the handmaiden of God. He calls judges servants of God who are to sit and rule here on earth in God’s stead. But if ever (which God forbid) anything should be commanded or forbidden which is against God’s command, then … with the holy apostles, who were also forbidden by government to speak anymore in the name of Jesus: “We must obey God more than man” [Acts 5:29].77

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