Karl Barth
Karl Barth
Karl BarthMay 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968) was a Swiss Reformed theologian who is often regarded as the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. Pope Pius XII called him the most important Christian theologian since St. Thomas Aquinas. His influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture, leading him to be featured on the cover of Time on April 20, 1962...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionReligious Author
Date of Birth10 May 1886
CountrySwitzerland
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion. In this respect believers understand unbelievers, skeptics, and atheists better than they understand themselves. Unlike unbelievers, they regard the impossibility of faith as necessary, not accidental ...
What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics,
In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
The Devil may also make use of morality.
No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.