Karl Barth

Also known as Barth, Karl, 1886-1968

Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968)

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Karl Barth was a Swiss Protestant theologian who lived from 1886 to 1968 and fundamentally shaped modern Christian thought. His work is considered important because he redirected theology away from human reasoning and back toward the authority of God's word in the Bible, influencing how churches and theologians understand faith in the twentieth century and beyond.

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Born: 1886
Died: 1968
Works: 714

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756/1956
說教の本質と実際
The theology of John Calvin
Theologie für Jedermann
イスカリオテのユダ

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France

Discography

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Total plays: 94

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5 total works indexed

Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,125x
Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,733x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
· 2012 · cited 11,732x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,660x

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Quotes

“For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.”
“What expressions we used – in part taken over and in part newly invented! — above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us ‘perpendicularly from above,’ the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.”
“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”
“Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.”
“Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.”
“Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Karl Barth (/bɑːrt, bɑːrθ/; Swiss Standard German: [bart]; (1886-05-10)10 May 1886 – (1968-12-10)10 December 1968) was a Swiss Reformed theologian. Barth is best known for his commentary The Epistle to the Romans, his involvement in the Confessing Church, including his authorship (except for a single phrase) of the Barmen Declaration, and especially his unfinished multi-volume theological summa the Church Dogmatics (published between 1932 and 1967). Barth's influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture, leading him to be featured on the cover of Time on 20 April 1962.

Like many Protestant theologians of his generation, Barth was educated in a liberal theology influenced by Adolf von Harnack, Friedrich Schleiermacher and others. His pastoral career began in the rural Swiss town of Safenwil, where he was known as the "Red Pastor from Safenwil". There he became increasingly disillusioned with the liberal Christianity in which he had been trained. This led him to write the first edition of his The Epistle to the Romans (a.k.a. Romans I), published in 1919, in which he resolved to read the New Testament differently.

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