Jesus is Lord?

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So I have a take home final exam for a class called Religions in Western Tradition. He’s aking us a question that we never went over at all in class.

“Explain the meaning of the term ‘Jesus is Lord’”
 
The saying “Jesus is Lord” serves as a statement of faith for millions of Christians who regard Jesus as both fully man and fully God. It is also the motto adopted by the World Council of Churches. During the first century the phrase Jesus is Lord was intended by early Christians as a political contrast to the popular greeting amongst Roman citizens- Caesar is Lord. Romans 10:9 of the New Testament Christian Bible says, “That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus as Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved”
 
This paragraph from the General Directory for Catechesis from the Congregation for the Clergy might spark some useful ideas:

The profession of faith inherent in Baptism (241) is eminently Trinitarian. The Church baptizes “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Mt 28,19) (242) the triune God to whom the Christian entrusts his life. Initiatory catechesis—both before and after the reception of Baptism—prepares for this decisive undertaking. Continuing catechesis helps to mature this profession of faith, to proclaim it in the Eucharist and to renew the commitments which it entails. It is important that catechesis should unite well the confession of christological faith, “Jesus is Lord”, with the trinitarian confession, “I believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”, in such a way that there are not two modes of expressing the Christian faith. He who is converted to Jesus Christ and recognizes him as Lord through the primary proclamation of the Gospel begins a process which, aided by catechesis, necessarily leads to explicit confession of the Trinity. (General Directory for Catechesis, Art 82, (AD 1997); emphasis added.)

Pax Christi tecum.

John Hiner
 
Or you may want to approach it from the point of view of the limits placed on civil government by the Faith. This is reflected in this paragraph from Libertas Praestantissimum, by Pope Leo XIII:

Again, it is not of itself wrong to prefer a democratic form of government, if only the Catholic doctrine be maintained as to the origin and exercise of power. Of the various forms of government, the Church does not reject any that are fitted to procure the welfare of the subject; she wishes only ---- and this nature itself requires – that they should be constituted without involving wrong to any one, and especially without violating the rights of the Church. (Leo XIII, Libertas Praestantissimum, art. 44, (AD 1888); emphasis added.)
Spiritus Sapientiae tecum.

John Hiner
 
It means everyone and everything are to be obedient to Him and He has supreme judgment over all. (See Phillipians 2:10-11)👍
 
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