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| Render Unto God: Economic Vulnerability, Family Violence, and Pastoral Theology |
The saying render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's comes from Matthew 22:15-22. We may assume this supports the separation of church and state, but that is wrong. It was written in a time when that was not even a concept and the Jewish and Roman religions were both part of the state. So rendering to God what belonged to God in that context then referred to the allegiance to the God of the Jewish people, not God entirely separated from a human government as we might picture it today. An unstated hidden message might be that Caesar in reality owns nothing. He is a false god. In faith we believe that what we must pay Caesar is a temporary burden. What do we render to God? Everything?
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