Prayer: History is the world’s judgment

Frederich Schiller wrote, “The world’s history is the world’s judgment.” The Swiss Reformed theologian Emil Brunner emphasizes what is true is Schiller’s statement: 

 Only we must not forget.... That such judgments in the lives of individuals, the history of nations, and humanity as a whole, betray their provisional character inasmuch as those who are instruments of them involve themselves in new wrong and the very process of executing them, and so make a fresh judgment necessary. The French Revolution was the judgment on the ancien regime; Napoleon was the judgment on the degenerate revolution, the Holy Alliance the judgment on napoleon, the revolutions of 1848 the judgment on the Holy Alliance, and so on up to our own times. 

 Gerhard Lohfink, Is This All There is? P. 147