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This introduction acts as an efficient entry point into the philosophy and writings of a great thinker. The fast-paced narrative describes Barth’s early life, his background, and the political context in which his thinking took shape. In a comprehensive but clear way, this volume provides the reader with an overview of this theologian’s crowning work, Church Dogmatics, and a true sense of the...

Trinity, God does interact directly, God with God, but as for the rest of us, a veiling must occur: ‘The Word of God does not appear in his eternal objectivity as the Son who dwells in the bosom of the Father. No, the Word became flesh’ (CD II/1 19). We know God mediately or sacramentally, and the sacrament—a created reality through which the uncreated God gives himself to be known—is Jesus, Mary’s son. What Barth is striving to say is that God ever preserves his primary objectivity, though allowing
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