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How is Christ king in light of all the evil that still plagues us, all the suffering, war, and injustice still in the world today? Famed twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth contends that Jesus reigns in the sense that there is a "pronouncedly revolutionary character of his [Christ's] relationship to the order of life..." Jesus breaks all the bonds asunder (Church Dogmatics, Vol. IV/2, p. 171). Martin Luther made a similar point: "Even if your sin and your conscience plague and oppress you and you stand in awe of God's judgment, you must realize that all that has been changed and that judgment has been abolished. Instead of harboring fear of the final judgment, you must yearn and long for it..." (Luther's Works, Vol. 22, p. 364).
Christ is king and he has conquered, in the same sense that the Union had won the Civil War after Gettysburg, the same way that the Allies won World War II after D-Day succeeded. But in both cases, as with the evil we still encounter, there were and are still a lot of mop-up operations to accomplish, too much suffering still remains, until ultimate victory.
Christ is king and he has conquered, in the same sense that the Union had won the Civil War after Gettysburg, the same way that the Allies won World War II after D-Day succeeded. But in both cases, as with the evil we still encounter, there were and are still a lot of mop-up operations to accomplish, too much suffering still remains, until ultimate victory.
