Karl Barth

Karl Barth was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1886, the son of a Reformed pastor and theologian. He studied in Germany under leading liberal theologians, but as pastor of the village of Safenwil, he was shaken when many of his teachers publicly supported Germany's war policy in 1914. Turning back to Scripture, he published a commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Romans (1919, revised 1922) that stressed God's sovereignty and judgement and the gulf between God and human religion. He then taught at Göttingen, Münster and Bonn. When the Nazis sought to control the German Protestant churches, Barth was the principal author of the Barmen Declaration of 1934, which confessed Jesus Christ as the one Word of God against the claims of the state. Dismissed from Bonn for refusing an unconditional oath to Hitler, he returned to Basel in 1935. There he continued his Church Dogmatics, left unfinished at more than nine thousand pages. He died in Basel in 1968.

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