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Van Til writes in the Preface, “The present writer is of the opinion that, for all its verbal similarity to historic Protestantism, Barth’s theology is, in effect, a denial of it. There is, he believes, in Barth’s view no ‘transition from wrath to grace’ in history. This was the writer’s opinion in 1946 when he published The New Modernism. A careful consideration of Barth’s more recent writings...

they did not properly recognize the hiddenness of God in his revelation. They sought to bring down the freedom of God into the given facts of history. Thus God was bound by his own revelation and no longer truly sovereign. Over against this Barth asserts that God is wholly hidden in his revelation to man in Christ. In the idea of Geschichte we recognize that in God’s revelation in Christ and in Scripture as the witness to Christ, the wholly free and sovereign God is speaking. A second weakness in
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