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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