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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...

IN his exposition of the doctrine of God in Volume II, Barth showed that God cannot be known in abstracto*, but only in the overflow of His life and love to the creature. Turning now to the doctrine of creation in Volume III, he insists that creation cannot be known or interpreted by and for itself, i.e., apart from the knowledge of the divine election and salvation in Jesus Christ. In this doctrine, we are concerned with faith in God the Father, and His overflowing towards us fulfilled
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