Here’s another quote from Barth. Here he talks about the Church’s solidarity with the world as an implication of her existence for God (which necessarily follows from God’s being for the world):
Solidarity with the world means that those who are genuinely pious approach the children of the world as such, that those who are genuinely righteous are not ashamed to sit down with the unrighteous as friends, that those who are genuinely wise do not hesitate to seem to be fools among fools, and that those who are genuinely holy are not too good or irreproachable to go down “into hell” in a very secular fashion. (CD, IV.3.2, 774.)
Tags: Ecclesiology, Karl Barth
