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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...

there can be no question of a “blind and formless and inarticulate and irrational stirring” to which there corresponds on our side only a “blind and formless incitement or even pacification.” Revelation is rather an event by which man becomes “one who sees and understands and knows,” and can give “a logical answer corresponding to the logical attitude of God” (IV, 2, p. 313). Christian faith is as remote from irrationalistic mysticism as it is from a rationalism which posits the axioms of human reason
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