are no areas in which the Christian must hear other powers and laws alongside the voice of Christ. All things and all relationships already now stand under the liberating and obligating lordship of Christ. This basic theological position comes from the theology of Karl Barth. In three occasional publications he attempted during the years of the church conflict to understand the relationship between church and world christologically: “Gospel and Law” (1935); “Justification and Justice” (1938); “Christian