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Karl Barth (pronounced "bart") was a Swiss Reformed theologian whom critics hold to be among the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with his experience as a pastor, he rejected his training in the predominant liberal theology typical of 19th-century Protestantism, especially German. Instead he embarked on a new theological path initially called dialectical theology (due to its stress on the paradoxical nature of divine truth—for instance, God is both grace and judgment), but more accurately called a theology of the Word. Critics have referred to Barth as the father of neo-orthodoxy—a pejorative term emphatically rejected by Barth himself. Barth's theological thought emphasized the sovereignty of God, particularly through his innovative doctrine of election. His theology has been enormously influential throughout Europe and America.
2003
Karl Barth's WWI Sermons
2016
Man and Humanity in Romans 5
1952
III.4 The Doctrine of Creation §§ 52–54
1993
III.4 The Doctrine of Creation §§ 55–56
1993
I.2 The Doctrine of the Word of God §§ 16–18
1993
III.1 The Doctrine of Creation §§ 40–42
1993
III.2 The Doctrine of Creation § 47
1992
II.1 The Doctrine of the Word of God §§ 25–27
1986
IV.1 The Doctrine of Reconciliation §§ 57–59
1986
II.2 The Doctrine of the Word of God §§ 34–35
1988
IV.1 The Doctrine of Reconciliation §§ 61–63
1986
1961
III.3 The Doctrine of Creation §§ 50–51
1992
I.1 The Doctrine of the Word of God §§ 8–12
1987
III.2 The Doctrine of Creation §§ 43–44
1992
I.2 The Doctrine of the Word of God §§ 13–15
1989
IV.2 The Doctrine of Reconciliation § 64
1993
IV.1 The Doctrine of Reconciliation § 60
1986
III.3 The Doctrine of Creation §§ 48–49
1992
II.2 The Doctrine of the Word of God §§ 32–33
1988
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The Doctrine of Creation
1945
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1958
1962
The Christian Life (fragment): Baptism as the Foundation of Christian Life
1930
1984
1986
The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Study Edition 29
1989
1939
Three Essays
1960
1935
1947
2000
An Introduction
1962
2006
1977
1964
1963
1991
1966
Theologian of Freedom
1988
The Revelation of God as the Sublimation of Religion
2006
1721
1964
2006
2003