Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

by N.T. Wright

Here as elsewhere we must avoid any facile over-realised eschatology, whether it be in the form of an unquestioned ‘divine right of kings’ or in the form of an equally unquestioned vox populi, vox Dei. Kings can err. So can mobs.