theology have problems with it. It looks dangerously like justification by works, the very antithesis of Paul, Augustine and Luther. On closer inspection, the passage does not warrant either of these attitudes. There is much here that goes uncomfortably with a social gospel: the exalted Son of Man executing the final judgment of God is hardly a theme you would expect in those circles. Equally, it is hardly about justification by works: our relation to the kingdom and the King is at the heart of it,