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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
Pastor
Theologian
University Teacher
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Proclamation
Testing
Doctrine
Church
Dogmatics

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Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
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Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.
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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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The relation of this God with this man the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.
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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.
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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
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