In every age, every church has had to discern what it meant then and there to say that Jesus has ‘all authority’ not only ‘in heaven’ but also ‘on earth’,46 working this through in terms of the Church–State relationship, balancing sacred and secular, with the Church discovering what it might mean to be ‘in the world’ but not ‘from the world’,47 to bear theo-political witness without becoming a theocratic menace.
