We interviewed Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor, Dr. Patrick Schreiner about his upcoming book, The Political Gospel. Dr. Schreiner presented the plenary lectures at the Northwest meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society on topics in his book.
Patrick Schreiner is Acting Director of the Residency PhD program and Associate Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He previously taught at Western Seminary in Portland Oregon (2014–20) and received his Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (2014).
He is the author of a number of books, including The Body of Jesus: A Spatial Analysis of the Kingdom in Matthew (T&T Clark), The Kingdom of God and the Glory of the Cross (Crossway), Matthew, Disciple and Scribe: The First Gospel and Its Portrait of Jesus (Baker), and The Ascension of Christ: Recovering a Neglected Doctrine (Lexham Press). He has also contributed chapters to God’s Glory Revealed in Christ: Essays on Biblical Theology in Honor of Thomas R. Schreiner (B&H) and Baptists and the Christian Tradition: Toward an Evangelical Baptist Catholicity (B&H).
NOTES:
Dr. Schreiner suggests that the church relates to the political powers of this age in two ways. The church submits and subverts. In the life of the early church, submission and subversion take place in such a way that Rome could claim that Jesus, and Paul, were innocent. And Rome executed them anyway.
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RECAP & TAKEAWAYS:
- The subversion of the church was not in protests or disobedience but in the nature of the message itself.
- Romans 13 and Revelation 13 both inform the Church’s relationship to the state.
- The primary role of the church is to bear witness to a new politic — Jesus is king!
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