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
Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
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.
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.
Faith is never identical with piety.
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.