Karl Barth on The Church in Excess and Defect (December 15, 2016)

Church in Excess and Defect St. Augustine said that the Church is a whore, but she is our mother. In time, we all experience the inadequacies of the Church, and this is especially true for Protestants, because few people remain members of the same church for the duration of their lives. […]

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