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Karl Barth was a modern master theologian. Whenever men in the past generation have reflected deeply on the ultimate problems of life and faith, they have done so in a way that bears the mark of the intellectual revolution let loose by this Swiss thinker. But his life was not simply one of quiet reflection and scholarship. He was obliged to do his thinking and writing in one of the stormiest...

enclosed in it as in the ark of the covenant. The Gospel is not Law, just as the Law is not Gospel; but because the Law is in the Gospel, from the Gospel, and points to the Gospel, we must first of all know about the Gospel in order to know about the Law, and not vice versa. We must, however, immediately clarify this: anyone who wishes correctly to approach our subject must speak first of the content of the Gospel, of God’s grace. We agree on this (how could we justify a different statement in the
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