“The Christian Church knows only one Lord, His system, His law, His power. But it knows this Lord as the Lord of all lords. It therefore sees His order, His will, His institution and His hand in political systems, with all their provisional and limited aims. It realises that political systems are run by men. But it sees a divine commission above and behind this provisional and limited work of man. It sees a necessary and wholesome gift of God in this work of man. What is at issue is the preservation of the common life from chaos. Political systems create and preserve a space for that which must happen in the time between the beginning and the end of which we have spoken: a space for the fulfilment of the purpose of world history, a space for faith, repentance and knowledge. They create a space for the life and mission of the Christian Church and therefore a space for something the whole world needs. … The Church knows all the more what political systems are for. Political systems may be as unecclesiastical as they like, but the Church cannot on any account be unpolitical, and that applies to all its members too.”
—Karl Barth, Against the Stream: Shorter Post-War Writings 1946-52 (London: SCM Press, 1954), 80-81
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