science, an established anthropology, a presupposed philosophical system or some other given knowledge of God, reality and man, into the co-ordinated system of which the Christian revelation has to be fitted. Yet it was by this rejection at the end of the twenties, when he stood almost alone and broke with a two-thousand-year-tradition in Christian theology, that Barth established a bulwark against the specific adaptation of the Christian faith to the norms of a supposed Germanic race consciousness
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