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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...

are conscious of the fact or not. This is not a ‘religious’ affirmation but the essence of human existence as such. Because this is the case, man’s true being consists of the fact ‘that he is with Jesus and therefore with God’ (CD III/2 135). The term Barth uses is ‘derivation’—we derive our existence from Christ, the divine Logos, the elect of the Father, who has freely chosen to be humanity’s representative, saviour and friend. Human existence is different from that of God. Divinity can never be
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