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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...

fact that they are both indicated rather than described; the one as an introduction, the other as a conclusion; the one a little more definitely, though still in very general terms, the other much more vaguely. Indeed, in the strict sense the ascension occurs only in Acts 1:9f.… The content of the Easter witness, the Easter event, was not that the disciples found the tomb empty or that they saw Him go up to heaven, but that when they had lost Him through death they were sought and found by Him as
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