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After March 26th, 1935 Karl Barth was deported from Nazi Germany via police escort to Switzerland because he refused to sign the Nazi "Oath of Loyalty" without modification to Adolf Hitler (also known as "Hitler's Oath"). After arriving in Switzerland, Barth became the Professor of Systematic Theology at the University […]
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In Karl Barth's Faith of the Church, describes the future resurrection like an unveiling of an art exhibit. Barth compares our entire lives from birth to death to an art exhibit under a table cloth, such that the art exhibit is present to all, but its true form is unrecognizable […]
Karl Barth on Three Types of Glorification in the New Testament (June 14, 2017)
Why do we need to glorify God? Is God needy? Karl Barth answers that we are unable to glorify God! The question presupposes the wrong answer. Glorification isn't something people can do to God, because God is already glorious! We cannot make God more glorious at all! The problem is […]
Karl Barth: We Believe in Eternal Life, not in Eternal Hell (May 22, 2015)
The Apostles' Creed is among the oldest universally accepted symbols of the Christian faith. In Karl Barth's commentary on the Apsotles' Creed, he observes that there is no mention of Satan, Hell or Eternal Death in the Apostles' Creed, there is only mention of Eternal Life. And although this creed mentions […]