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Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 3.1 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...

With this third note, and particularly its final development, we have clearly reached the sphere of our particular theme. Everything that has to be said about the glory of the Mediator, and first about the light of life, might well be summed up in the statement that, as He lives, Jesus Christ speaks for Himself, that He is His own authentic Witness, that of Himself He grounds and summons and creates knowledge of Himself and His life, making it actual and therefore possible. We shall now attempt various
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