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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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Testing
Doctrine
Church
Dogmatics
Proclamation

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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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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 loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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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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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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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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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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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.
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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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