The Essential Karl Barth Quotes

“Note that Christ does not elevate or fulfill our preexisting capacities but completely resets them. We are dissolved and then established; we are stopped and then set in motion; we wait and then hurry. Throughout the book, Barth relates this sense of movement to our justification: to be justified is to break with the known realm of creation and to move into that which is unknown and not yet realized. His point is that Christ’s resurrection does not reveal the end of created history as much as it inaugurates the beginning of its future. And it is this future in Christ that determines the shape of our lives in the present.”
― Keith L. Johnson, The Essential Karl Barth: A Reader and Commentary