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Karl Barth: His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Karl Barth’s life was a remarkable triumph. An authentic “church father” of the post-Reformation era, the Basel professor’s contributions to theology, the life of the church, and the world of culture and politics have been noted at length. This work, however, presents extraordinary new information and insight based on his own correspondence and notes. What one finds in this work is Barth’s own...

even more her legs, wiggling, enticing, beckoning and frolicking in all directions.’ And ‘I thought again of the old question: “Why doesn’t the church at least try to be as good at what it does as the children of this world with their singing, miming and dancing?” ’177 His guides to Paris were the pastors Pierre Maury and Willem A. Visser’t Hooft—he had first met the latter in France in 1928. While in Paris, Barth gave three seminars on Calvin from 10–12 April at the invitation of the Protestant
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