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
Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.
That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.