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Church Dogmatics, Volume 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 2 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...

fructificavi*. Or again, it can be said in the hymn “Ave, maris Stella” (Commune festorum B. Mariae V., in I vesperis Brev. Rom.): Salve vincla reis Profer lumen cacis Mala nostra pelle Bona cuncta posce Monstra te esse matrem Sumat per te preces Qui pro nobis natus Tulit esse tuus. Or again, in the Praefatio* of the Feast of Mary it can be said of Mary: lumen aeternum mundo effudit*. We can only confront Diekamp’s declaration with the equally definite Evangelical declaration that where Mary is “venerated,”
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