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Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 2 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...

which will have to be made in fact, both outwardly and inwardly, along the lines indicated in the New Testament, corresponding to, and attesting, the irruption of the kingdom of God. In other words, we shall always have to do with a form of the free activity which Paul described in the imperative of Rom. 12:2: μὴ συσχηματίζεσθε τῷ αἰῶνι τούτῳ*. But from what the New Testament tells us of His commanding, and of the obedience demanded from these particular men and rendered by them, we have
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