Carolina QuotesMan as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain.
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In "Karl Barth's Conception of God" (1952) by Martin Luther King, Jr., King cites this as a statement of Barth's in The Epistle to the Romans, p. 91, but it does not actually appear in the 1933 translation of Edwin Hoskyns. It may be a paraphrase of some of Barth's ideas which were incorrectly cited.
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- 1933
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- p. 91
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“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and str…” Karl Barth. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-1536ACEC5D. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/1536acec5d
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