The Karl Barth Centennial: An Appreciative Critique

“from all eternity God has determined upon man’s acquittal at his own cost” (Dogmatics II, 2, p. 167). Therefore, “there is no such thing as a created nature which has its purpose, being or continuance apart from Grace” (p. 92). Such a universalistic understanding of God’s suffering love constitutes a drastic reversal of the terrible inscrutable darkness of the secret will of the God of Luther and Calvin.”

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“Within the creation, God’s reality is so unobtrusive that it is possible to fail to see that a God even exists. God’s power is of an altogether different order than the power structures of this world. God conquers through suffering love.” – The Karl Barth Centennial: An Appreciative Critique