Final Testimonies
Published on 21. October 2003
68 pages
978-1-4982-7075-5 (ISBN)
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The five brief pieces collected here represent the final words prepared by Karl Barth for publication, all of them originating during the period from his serious illness in August of 1968 to his death in December of that same year. The final selection is a fragment left unfinished the night he died.
The last word that I have to say as a theologian or politician is not a concept like grace but a name: Jesus Christ. He is grace and he is the ultimate one beyond world and church and even theology. We cannot lay hold of him. But we have to do with him.... There is no salvation but in this name. In him is grace.
Karl Barth, 'Final Testimonies'
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Karl Barth (1886-1968), the Swiss Reformed professor and pastor, was once described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. As principal author of 'The Barmen Declaration', he was the intellectual leader of the German Confessing Church - the Protestant group that resisted the Third Reich. Barth's teaching career spanned nearly five decades. Removed from his post at Bonn by the Nazis in late 1934, Barth moved to Basel where he taught until 1962. Among Barth's many books, sermons, and essays are The Epistle to the Romans, Humanity of God, Evangelical Theology, and Church Dogmatics.
Evangelical Theology, American Lectures, 1962
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copy Right
- Contents
- Translator's Preface
- Foreword
- Testimony to Jesus Christ
- Music for a Guest-A Radio Broadcast
- Liberal Theology-An Interview
- Radio Sermons Catholic and Evangelical
- Starting out, Turning Round, Confessing
- Epilogue (Eberhard Busch)
