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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...

no longer alone but before God and therefore in the midst of the fulfilment of a real knowledge of God. It is actually the case that in and with the peculiar and exceptional thing that has taken place an entirely new aspect is opened up. For this very reason the right time for us to stop short, to hesitate and to consider what we are doing is the moment when we dare to go back to the sphere of what God is in Himself. It is the case, then, that we have come to a knowledge of the truth by the truth?