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Church Dogmatics, Volume 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Karl Barth, who lived from 1886–1968, was perhaps the most influential theologian of the 20th century. Church Dogmatics, Barth’s monumental life-work that consists of more than 6 million words, was written over the span of 35 years. In it, Barth covers in depth the great doctrines of the Word of God, God, Creation and Reconciliation. He made it his task “to take all that has been said before and...

theological standpoint, so that theology integrated along these lines must be flatly disowned as theology. How can it be otherwise if the intention is to make the theme of theology accessible to all men with the requisite clarity and to depict it according to methods which are valid for all? Whatever may be the concept of science, this object of knowledge cannot be handled in this way. If theology allows itself to be called, or calls itself, a science, it cannot in so doing accept the obligation
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