Counterrevolutionary

When and where the wider world sees governmentally obedient Christians, it will simultaneously witness the obstinate refusal to confess anyone other than Christ as Lord. When and where the wider world sees a Christian community that works within the jurisprudential norms of the land, it will simultaneously witness a community that turns such norms toward the truth of its political life. In short, the Christian story of the meantime tells of a distinction between church and world and of the different ways of knowing that are interwoven with this distinction itself.—One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions, 221

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Would that that were true today, when so many who call themselves Christian are more interested in establishing a dominion here on earth than they are in living the kingdom in their own life!
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