Karl Barth

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born

May 10, 1886 in Basel, Switzerland

died

December 10, 1968

genre

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

influences

Wilhelm Herrmann

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Karl Barth (pronounced "bart") was a Swiss Reformed theologian whom critics hold to be among the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with his experience as a pastor, he rejected his training in the predominant liberal theology typical of 19th-century Protestantism, especially German.

Instead he embarked on a new theological path initially called dialectical theology (due to its stress on the paradoxical nature of divine truth - for instance, God is both grace and judgment), but more accurately called a theology of the Word. Critics have referred to Barth as the father of neo-orthodoxy - a pejorative term emphatically rejected by Ba...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 1,127 ratings · 134 reviews · 168 distinct works

	Dogmatics in Outline 3.97 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1947 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Epistle to the Romans by Karl Barth, Edwyn C. Hoskyns (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 138 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Humanity of God by Karl Barth, John N. Thomas (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1960	My rating:
	Evangelical Theology by Karl Barth, Grover Foley (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1962 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Church Dogmatics 14 Volume Set by Karl Barth, Thomas F. Torrance, Geoffrey William Bromiley (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Doctrine of the Word of God: Introduction, The Word of God as the Criterion of Dogmatics, The Revelation of God (Church Dogmatics, Vol 1, pt 1) by Karl Barth, Thomas F. Torrance (Editor), Geoffrey William Bromiley (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1956	My rating:
	The Word of God and the Word of Man by Karl Barth, Douglas Horton (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1958	My rating:
	God Here and Now by Karl Barth, Paul M. Van Buren (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth, Geoffrey William Bromiley (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Natural Theology: Comprising "Nature and Grace" by Professor Dr. Emil Brunner and the Reply "No!" by Dr. Karl Barth by Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Peter Fraenkel (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2002	My rating:

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“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”
― Karl Barth

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“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”
― Karl Barth

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“The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.”
― Karl Barth

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