Dogmatics in Outline
Karl Barth
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.”
“Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously.”
“God has not the slightest need for our proofs.”
“the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.”
“political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth,”
“The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.”
“No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.”
“Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics,”
“The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church’s language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.”
“In virtue of the name of Pontius Pilate being connected with Him, the life and passion of Jesus Christ is an event in the same world history in which our life also takes place.”
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