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Karl Barth’s monumental work, Church Dogmatics, is recognized as a landmark in Protestant theology—perhaps the most important work of this century. However, the size range of its fourteen volumes has meant that its content and significance may not be so widely known or appreciated as it deserves. In this concise introduction, Helmut Gollwitzer provides a selection of some of the most important...

against the notion of man bearing God within his own breast and knowing well the right way. All the things which had seemed to be self-evident were now shown not to be so at all: that man knows about God; that human questioning finds a divine answer; that God can be known; that God hears and speaks; that God is love; that God is concerned about man; that the address of God means life for man and not death. Barth’s correspondence in 1923 with his former teacher A. von Harnack9 should be read to understand
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