“Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God that which is God’s.’ In my opinion, the entire problem of life in contemporary culture can be defined as the challenge to understand that saying of Jesus.”
Jacob Needleman
It is not easy to unravel this complicated saying and the dilemma it reveals. The difficulty encompasses centuries of the history of ideas, the story of religion in the world, and especially the radical significance of the teaching and work of Jesus of Nazareth. This astonishing word of Jesus is not simply inviting us to decide what is worldly or secular (and therefore requiring our responsibility and our duty) and, secondly, what is sacred and transcendent (and therefore requiring our primary devotion).
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