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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...

of grace in Jesus Christ, the election of grace being understood as this ratio, the root of the doctrine of providence. That this is the case is what has actually to be said of this relationship. But for this very reason there can be no place in the doctrine of the divine being for a doctrine of providence above or even alongside that of the election of grace. Like the doctrine of creation, and together with it, that of providence describes an outer and not an inner work of God. Like the doctrine
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