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A Christian’s understanding of God is crucial to how he or she views everything else. In The Doctrine of God: A Global Introduction, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen surveys what the church has traditionally thought about God. He also examines what the church today, both in North America and around the world, thinks about God and shows how the insights of Christians from various cultures can enrich an...

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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