Combatting Totalitarianism: The Legacies of St. Paul and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Collapse of the "Murderous Utopias" of Communism and National - Paperbackby John A. Moses (Author), Graham Maddox (Foreword by), Brian Douglas (Foreword by) St. Paul, the apostle to the gentiles, has bequeathed guidelines for both personal and political behavior to individual citizens and to states that have retained their relevance to humanity to this day. However, his statement in Romans 13 that "the powers that be are ordained of God" has been interpreted in conflicting ways, especially since the time of Martin Luther