Aquinas and Barth both describe the Christian life in light of who God is and how God acts, rather than with a primary concern for morality or apologetics. They differ in that Aquinas describes a single, essentially monastic, and normative form of discipleship that, because it cannot be taken up by most Christians, issues in practice in a two-tier conception of the Christian life. By contrast, Barth's account of vocation individualises the call to each Christian so that it is possible for everyone to lead the Christian life equally well yet in very diverse ways. For this reason, and because our true relation to God is hidden, even to ourselves, we may conclude that it is dangerous to make negative judgement as to anyone's standing before God – and therefore their relative standing in the church, too – based upon a view of the normative form of the Christian life.

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托马斯·阿奎那（Thomas Aquinas）和卡尔·巴特（Karl Barth）对基督徒生活的看法：异同

阿奎那（Aquinas）和巴特（Barth）都是根据上帝是谁以及上帝的行为来描述基督徒的生活，而不是主要关注道德或辩护论。他们的不同之处在于，阿奎那描述了一种门徒式的，本质上是修道院式的，规范性的门徒形式，由于多数基督徒无法接受，因此在实践中以基督徒生活的两层概念来提出问题。相比之下，巴特对职业的描述使每个基督徒的呼吁个性化，因此每个人都有可能以非常多样化的方式平等地过好基督徒的生活。因此，由于我们与上帝的真实关系（甚至对我们自己）都是隐藏的，因此我们可以得出结论，对任何人在上帝面前的地位做出负面判断是危险的，因此对他们在教会中的相对地位做出判断是危险的。