George Hunsinger
is currently a professor of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in the United
States. In 1987 he published an article entitled “Where the Battle Rages:
Confessing Christ in America Today.” That essay was republished in 2000 as
chapter 4 in his book Disruptive Grace:
Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth. The points he made then continue to
remain important to those of us seeking to live as prophetic witnesses to Jesus
today.
He begins his essay with a stirring quote from Martin Luther (1483-1546): “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”