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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...

we accept the real difference between creation and providence as seriously demanded by Gen. 2:1–8. In creation we have to do with the establishment, and in providence with the guaranteeing and determination, of the history of creaturely existence by the will and act of God. If the one God wills and does both, we must not say that He wills and does the same thing in both cases. We must not interpret providence as continuata creatio*, but as a continuatio creationis*. The very passage in Gen. 2:1–3
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