Karl Barth, 1886-1968. Barth was a Swiss Protestant theologian who advocated a return to the principles of the Reformation and the teachings of the Bible. Barth's published works include Church Dogmatics, The Epistle to the Romans and an introduction to Evangelical Theology.
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existentialism and Karl Barthdied Sept. 30, 1922, Leipzig
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Karl Barth, b. Basel, Switzerland, May 10, 1886, d. Dec. 9, 1968, is considered by some the greatest Protestant theologian of the 20th century and possibly the greatest since the Reformation. More than anyone else, Barth inspired and led the renaissance of theology that took place from about 1920 to 1950. Barth studied at the universities of Bern, Berlin, Tubingen, and Marburg and held pastorates in Switzerland between 1909 and 1921. During this time, he became known as a radical critic both of the prevailing liberal theology and of the social order. Liberal theology, Barth believed, had accommodated Christianity to modern culture. The crisis of World War I was in part a symptom of this unholy alliance. In Barth's famous commentary on Romans (1919), Barth stressed the discontinuity between the Christian message and the world. God is the wholly other; he is known only in his revelation; he is not the patron saint of culture, but its judge. |
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