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
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.