and found wanting.” He could no longer share the legacy of Scheiermacher and Ritschl, but turned to the biblical message of “the living God.” He began to mark out his distinctive alternative from 1917 onward. In February 1917 he wrote “The Strange New World within the Bible.” This “new world” requires “not right human thoughts about God, but right divine thoughts about persons” (in Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man [London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928], 43). He writes: “A new world projects
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