did, however, have a domestic, social, and political life, just as art and science flourished among them as well. This entire field of civil life in all its branches therefore forms a contrast to the church. Church and civil life form two separate spheres, and the varying significance of Jesus’ kingship for each of these spheres is governed altogether by this principial difference between them. Our King’s rule does indeed extend over both of them, but in different ways. In civil life Jesus’ kingship