Word: participationist
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...state problems, appeared in the U.S. The book clarifies Earth's political position and partly explains its connection with his rigid theology, with which U.S. theologians, be they as "neo-orthodox" as Barth himself, increasingly disagree. By what he says, Neutralist Barth marks himself as actually an indiscriminate "participationist." The essence of his church-state philosophy: the church must participate in the affairs of any state, Communist or not. "The State," says Barth, "is not a product of sin, but one of the constants of divine Providence...
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