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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...

peace and create evil: I the Lord do all these things” (cf. also Is. 44:24). And we think of the scene in Rev. 4 where first and foremost the throne of God is surrounded, not by the four beasts representing the cosmos as such, but by Israel and the Church represented in their unity by the four and twenty elders—not forgetting the “seven lamps of fire which are the seven spirits of God.” And if v. 9 tells us that the four beasts also give praise and honour and thanks to Him who sits on the throne
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