Abstract
CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN THINKING through their relationship with the tangled worlds-within-worlds of politics, economics, and culture for nearly two millennia. The essential nature of that unavoidable entanglement and the distinctive character of the Christian's presence in "the world" came into focus early. As the subapostolic Letter to Diognetus reminds us, Christians are always "resident aliens" in the world, for while Christians honor just rulers, obey just laws, and contribute to the common good of whatever society in which they find themselves, a Christian's ultimate loyalty is given to a Kingdom that is elsewhere. Christians believe that history can be read in its fullness only in the light of faith in the Risen Christ, the Lord of history, and in that perspective, history is both the arena of God's action and the antechamber to our true home—the "city of the living God" (Heb.12:22). Those who know this about history live in history in a distinctive way.1
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