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Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 3.2 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...

and certainty the absolutely prevenient “history” which as the opus Trinitatis internum ad extra* is in God Himself the eternal beginning of all His ways and works, namely, the election of grace of the God who loves in freedom and is free in love, in which the Son, thereto ordained by the Father and obedient to the Father, has elected Himself for sinful man and sinful man for Himself. In the light of this, the one true God is the God of man in time, yet not merely in the time in which Jesus Christ
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