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“Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.”

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Karl Barth was a Swiss theologian born on May 10, 1886, and died on December 10, 1968. He is considered one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century, known for his critical theological method and profound biblical exegesis. more

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“Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.”

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“For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.”

Heart Doe Suffering Church Millions Confessing

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“What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.”

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Book:The Humanity of God

Source: The Humanity of God

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Book:Church Dogmatics: pt. 1. The doctrine of the word of God

Source: Church Dogmatics: pt. 1. The doctrine of the word of God

“There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.”

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Book:Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)

Source: Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)

“Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.”

Book:Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)

Source: Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)

“We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.”

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Book:Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God

Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God

“The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

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Book:This Christian cause: (A letter to Great Britain from Switzerland)

Source: This Christian cause: (A letter to Great Britain from Switzerland)

“I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.”

Men Kind Two Different Shows Unions Encounters Different Kinds Togetherness

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“When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.”

Men Sin Committed Sinner

Book:Gespräche, 1959-1962

Source: Gespräche, 1959-1962