Theology and Church Quotes

“If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“whatever is subject to time is limited, is relative, and is made manifest as world by the ‘last things’ of which we are now cognizant, whether we will or not. ‘It is in no way possible to concede to the Pharisees a kingdom of God already appearing among them, wholly on this side of the end’ (on Luke 17:20–1, p.”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“For ‘historical’ means ‘subject to time’ (p. 242).”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“What lies between these two ends, these ‘last things’, is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term ‘Super-History’ (Urgeschichte) or ‘creation-history’, he designates the one; with the term ‘death’, the other.”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term ‘Super-History’ (Urgeschichte) or ‘creation-history’,”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“Of Myself and of Death’ (pp. 287–300).”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“Concerning the Investigation of Super-History’ (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20–8)”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“the irreconcilable antitheses of death and life, the world and the kingdom of heaven, and then again to see them both as one, before he can evaluate the concealed power of this unique spirit. For ‘this was a man and to be a man means to be a fighter’.”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“For it is a dangerous book, a book filled with the apocalyptic air of judgement.”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“But be warned! The book is an inconceivably impressive sharpening of the commandment ‘Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain’.”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“purely negative approach”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“UNSETTLED QUESTIONS FOR THEOLOGY TODAY (1920)”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928

“the concrete actuality of God’s revelation in Word and Act.”
― Karl Barth, Theology and Church: Shorter Writings 1920-1928