So perhaps the best moral sense Christians can make of the story of Christendom now, from the vantage of its aftermath, is to recall that the gospel was never bound to the historical fate of any political or social order, but always claimed to enjoy a transcendence of all times and places. ... That being so, surely modern Christians should find some joy in being forced to remember that they are citizens of a kingdom not of this world, that here they have no enduring city, and that they are called to live as strangers and pilgrims on the earth.[11] —David Bentley Hart
