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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...

Bible-Word.”9 “Tradition,” Barth goes on to assert in italics, “is not revelation.”10 He also points out that this does not mean jumping over the intervening nineteen centuries “to the Bible alone,” as the orthodox thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries tried to do. These determined “biblicists” had their contemporary philosophy in their heads, took it with them to the Bible and so most certainly read themselves into the Bible no less than Church Fathers and Scholastics. They were no
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