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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...

inevitable that in the light of that discussion we give the same decisive answer to these further questions about the nature of revelation. Every question about the objective and subjective reality of revelation must likewise lead us to the lordship and glory of the one God. Otherwise we should be passing by the evidence of Holy Scripture in search of a different revelation. But the answer to the question about the subject of revelation authorises, nay compels us to ask further questions here also.
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