Carolina QuotesThe revelation in Jesus, just because it is the revelation of the righteousness of God is at the same time the strongest conceivable veiling and unknowableness of God. In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.
Karl Barth Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921)
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- 1918
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