Rather, both, the rulers and the ruled, are made accountable in the same way. When the church, addressing both, “calls [this] to mind,” in effect a barrier is erected against both the autonomy of the state and the mentality of passive subjection on the part of the people. The fact that the church calls this to mind makes it clear that it does intervene in the political world and exercise a “prophetic sentinel’s office,” without ceasing to be the church.
