Surely then when Barth says that the Bible is the Word of God, he is not reacting against liberalism’s progress idea. He is going beyond it in terms of a modern activist philosophy of which liberalism never dreamed. 1. The Isolation of the Reformed View of Scripture The conclusion of the matter is that we are compelled to speak with Berkouwer of the isolation of the Reformed view of Scripture. If we are to avoid having a merely formal adherence to the idea of the Scriptures as the very Word of God,
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