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
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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.
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...
Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.