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Karl Barth (1886–1968) is generally acknowledged to be the most important European Protestant theologian of the twentieth century, a figure whose importance for Christian thought compares with that of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Martin Luther, and Friedrich Schleiermacher. Author of the Epistle to the Romans, the multi-volume Church Dogmatics, and a wide range of other...

object is the subject of all theology. In §1 of Church Dogmatics the reference to the concept of knowledge disappears. Dogmatics is defined as ‘scientific self-examination of the Christian Church with respect to the content of its distinctive talk about God’ (CD I/1:3). Because the actuality of the word of God is rooted, in all three of its forms, only in itself, knowing can only have the form of recognition, of acknowledgement (Anerkennung), that is rooted in the Word of God (CD I/1:§6). When Barth
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