Barth on the exclusive claim of Christ

"...it is the common denominator which is accepted in every Christian statement, which marks every such statement as binding and urgent, and the ignoring or obscuring of which causes all such statements to lose their specific weight. It is certainly fashioned and proclaimed arbitrarily, and therefore exposed to reproach, if it is related to the position or opinion or intention of the man who represents it, or to the plans and enterprises and teachings and institutions of the Christian Church as a fellowship of such men, being thus used to declare the absoluteness of this or that form of what is called Christianity or the Church."