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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...

without reason that he is not mentioned here. He is all ears and eyes, but he does not take part. It is a little surprising, perhaps, that there is no reference at least to the earthly community of the saints, who are clearly mentioned in v. 8 and especially v. 10. According to the thesis of Peterson that there is a cultus in heaven in which the Church participates (p. 37), it ought to have appeared at this point. For here at the very latest it ought to have emerged that what is described in these
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