Another sign that Barth knew what he was talking about: In the context of discussing how religion should be shaped by revelation and not vice versa, Barth says:
"If we do not know this [the danger of this reversal], if we argue against them [the proponents of this reversal] in detail and not as a whole, and only from conservatism, i.e., fear, and not from knowledge, then we are lost, no matter how good may be our intentions or what victories we achieve in points of detail. What serves and helps the Church is not to soften or weaken the heresy which has infiltrated into it, but to know it, to fight it and to isolate it." (CD I/2, §17)There is also another, more general application contained in here - Dismissing something that strikes us as contrary to faith on the mere basis of fear or conservatism seems to be invalid for Barth - instead, we should know what we're talking about...
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