Quotes About Karl Barth

Fear of scholasticism is the mark of a false prophet. —KARL BARTH

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

UNSETTLED QUESTIONS FOR THEOLOGY TODAY (1920)

For it is a dangerous book, a book filled with the apocalyptic air of judgement.

Concerning the Investigation of Super-History' (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20–8)

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.

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.