Quotes from Karl Barth

Concerning the Investigation of Super-History' (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20—8)

Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history'

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history', he designates the one; with the term 'death', the other.

Faith is rather a freedom, a permission. It is permitted to be so—that the believer in God's Word may hold on to this Word in everything, in spite of all that contradicts it.

The greatest hindrance to faith is again and again just the pride and anxiety of our human hearts.

What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.

For 'historical' means 'subject to time' (p. 242).

whatever is subject to time is limited, is relative, and is made manifest as world by the 'last things' of which we are now cognizant, whether we will or not. 'It is in no way possible to concede to the Pharisees a kingdom of God already appearing among them, wholly on this side of the end' (on Luke 17:20—1, p.

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.