The political dimension of the church's mission according to the thinking of Karl Barth

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Francisco Xavier Sotil Baylos

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Does the Church’s evangelizing mission includes strict essentially a political dimension? In his works “Rationale and right” and “Christian Community and civil community”, the Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) answered yes to this question. After criticizing the response to the question by Luther, Zwingli and Calvin, Barth founded Christological nature of the internal relationship, objective justification needed between divine and human right, between Christian community and civil community. This note sets out very briefly the thought of Karl Barth about offering some elements of assessment of it.

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Sotil Baylos, F. X. (2013). The political dimension of the church’s mission according to the thinking of Karl Barth. Brasiliensis, 2(3), 27-42. https://doi.org/10.5281/xbtpq071
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Francisco Xavier Sotil Baylos

Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Licenciado en Teología Sistemática por la Facultad de Teología de Cataluña, Profesor Invitado de Filosofía en el Seminario Archidiocesano Redemptoris Mater de Brasilia y Director espiritual en el Colegio Redemptoris Mater de Roma.

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Sotil Baylos, F. X. (2013). The political dimension of the church’s mission according to the thinking of Karl Barth. Brasiliensis, 2(3), 27-42. https://doi.org/10.5281/xbtpq071