“’He sitteth on the right hand of God the Father’—the summit has been reached, the perfect tenses lie behind us and we enter the realm of the present. That is what we have to say of our time—that is the first and the last thing that matters for our existence in time. At its basis lies this existence of Jesus Christ, his sitting at the right hand of God the Father. Whatever prosperity or defeat may occur in our space, whatever may become and pass away, there is one constant, one thing that remains and continues, this sitting of his at the right hand of God the Father. There is no historical turning-point which approaches this. Here we have the mystery of what we term world history, Church history, history of civilisation; here we have the thing that underlies everything.”

— Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline