Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation
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Source: The Humanity of God
Source: Gespräche, 1959-1962
Source: The Epistle to the Romans
Source: The Humanity of God
Source: Church Dogmatics Study Edition 11: The Doctrine of God II.2 § 34-35
Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God
“True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.”
Source: Church Dogmatics: pt. 1. The doctrine of the word of God
“No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.”
“Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.”
Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God
“What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.”
Source: Letters, 1961-1968
“Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.”