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Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

obedience accepts the ordination of man to salvation which we resist, and in that way satisfies us, i.e., achieves that which can positively satisfy us. That is the absolutely unique being, attitude and activity of God to which the “God with us” at the heart of the Christian message refers. It speaks of the peace which God Himself in this man has made between Himself and us. We see the seriousness and force of the divine redemptive will in the fact that it is not too little and not too much for Him
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