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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...

reconciliation to the Son, redemption to the Spirit). Barth follows the manual dogmatics of the Roman Catholic theologian Bernhard Bartmann in affirming three rules for correct use of the doctrine of ‘appropriations’:1) ‘appropriations’ must not be arbitrary but must reflect the real distinctions in God which are posited with the differing ‘modes of origin’; 2) ‘appropriations’ must not be intended exclusively: they are not ‘personal’ properties of the mode of being to which they are assigned since
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