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The Faith of the Church: A Commentary on the Apostle’s Creed according to Calvin’s Catechism is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Apostles’ Creed presents the foundation of Christian faith. The interpretive version of the Apostles’ Creed formulated by the Swiss reformer John Calvin in his catechism has been the basis of Protestant theological education for centuries. In The Faith of the Church, Karl Barth—one of the powerful and enduring theologians of modern Protestantism—reinterprets the Apostles’ Creed according to...

forgiveness of sins, we are concerned with man’s life. But there is a difference between forgiveness of sins and resurrection of the flesh. So to speak, one is the reverse of the other. The forgiveness of sins starts with temporal human existence and places it in its relation to eternity. Inversely, the resurrection of the flesh starts with eternity and ushers human existence into it. Forgiveness of sins opens the perspective of eternity to human existence. Resurrection of the flesh, we might say,
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