But at another level – and this brings us with a flying leap into our own era – the Church has often remained unaware of this aspect of its calling. There are many Christians today, not least in the modern Western world, who have no idea that the Jesus whom they worship did indeed win the victory over the dark powers of the world, let alone what that might mean in practice. And this has left the door open for very different, and unbiblical, visions of the political calling of the followers of Jesus. As in earlier days, when it was possible for devout Christians to imagine that a bloodthirsty
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