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Karl Barth (/bɑːrθ/; German: [baʀth]; (1886-05-10)May 10, 1886 – (1968-12-10)December 10, 1968) was a Swiss Reformed theologian who is often regarded as the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. His influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture, leading him to be featured on the cover of Time on April 20, 1962.

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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.

Essence, Hidden, Jesus, Occupied, Son

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

Be Good, Good, Men

Man can certainly flee from God. . . but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

Change, Eternal, God, Hate, Hateful

I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all

Believe, Christ, Jesus, Universalism

This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.

Appeared, Jesus, Kindness, Limits, Right, Set

Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers. . . we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

Doubt, Idols, Living, Might, Regarding, Ruled

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Jesus, Church, Christ

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God. . . is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Awakens, Beautiful, Joy, Laughter, Radiates

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.

Brother, Deal, Father, Jesus, Knowledge, Longer

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

Against, Gospel, Mark, Question, Question Mark, Truths

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Echoes, Faith, Grace, Gratitude, Heaven, Together

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

Christ, Jesus, Master, Masters

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Angel, Famille, Play, Praising, Together

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

Exactly, Exegesis, Halfway, Practicals, Theology

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

Church, Doctrine, Dogmatics, Proclamation, Testing

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

Doe, Falsehood, Keep, Lying, Man, Men

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Christian, Forgiveness, Looking, Looks

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.

Achieve, Ideas, Impartiality, Normal, Prejudice, Quite

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

Bible, Book, Books, Read, Reads

The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book of Dogmatics. They laugh at the fact that volume follows volume, and each is thicker than the previous ones. As they laugh, they say to one another, ‘Look! Here he comes now with his little pushcart full of volumes of the Dogmatics!’—and they laugh about the persons who write so much about Karl Barth instead of writing about the things he is trying to write about. Truly, the angels laugh.

Angel, Book, Follows, Laugh, Things, Writing

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