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
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.
Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
No one can be saved--in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved--in virtue of what God can do.
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
We definitely showed a month off, but I should have had us ready.
One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.
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