As you know More was a layman in sixteenth century England, a lawyer, scholar, author and ultimately Lord Chancellor, who was executed by King Henry VIII because he believed the Pope not Henry VIII was head of the Church in England. For Robert Bolt, More was a hero because More was a man with an adamantine sense of his own self. Bolt claimed that More knew where he began and left off, what areas of himself he could yield to the encroachments of his enemies. This claim of Robert Bolt misses the crucial point. More died for Christian truth.
Truth is beautiful.
Truth is lovable. To be seized by the power of truth is to be seized, not by mere rationality, but by the Truth which is Love. This is the secret of Christ s kingship. Jesus is also king because in the last days he will institute a kingdom of love, where our sins and all evil will be washed away, where God s glory and power will be triumphant, where even those who have hated and opposed the Lord and his followers through the ages, will acknowledge him as the alpha and the omega, the king, the centrepiece of all human history and the whole of creation. Jesus kingship is not defined in political or economic terms.