Barth’s clash with liberalism began with his Epistle to the Romans, first published in 1918 (revised in 1922). In that work, Barth denies the principle of continuity that liberalism had taken for granted and argues for a radical discontinuity between God and humanity as well as between nature and grace. Barth’s view of God is exposited in the first volume of his monumental Church Dogmatics (1932–67). According to Barth, there is absolutely no way of knowing God apart
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