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Over the past two decades, studies on Karl Barth have become increasingly technical. The ironic result is that although Barth wrote chiefly for preachers, scholars have become the primary gatekeepers to his rich theological thought. The collection of essays in Thy Word Is Truth introduces Karl Barth with both clarity and depth, providing pastors and other serious readers with a valuable overview...

sanctified by grace alone, they have still spoken the Word of God in their fallible and erring human word.1 In other words, God works through the human text, for “the fallible and faulty human word is as such used by God and has to be received and heard in spite of its human fallibility.”2 How are we to know that these fallible pages are the Word of God? Here Barth finds himself in the same kind of circle in which all Protestants find themselves, though Protestants would assert that the circle need
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