Carolina QuotesI had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God — a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
Karl Barth Connected to the Carolinas
Source
On his Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921).
- work
- "Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)
- year
- 1918
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