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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...

extent does human essence correspond to the determination of man to be the covenant-partner of God? Our criterion in answering this question is the humanity of the man Jesus. If, for all the distance, there is between His humanity and ours a common factor, a similarity for all the dissimilarity, now that we turn to ourselves, to man generally, we must first make a great distinction and differentiation in respect of the human essence presupposed in our question. We cannot start with the assumption
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