the power of the devil—that is, whether sinful reality—must be understood as a realm erected against the church, that is, against the kingdom of Christ [Reich Christi]. Is not the final static opposition, which justifies thinking in terms of realms, the opposition between the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of the devil?[64] However much this question seems at first glance to demand an affirmative answer, on closer examination it is not self-evident. Christ and Christ’s adversary the devil are