Carolina QuotesThe relation between us and God, between this world and His world, presses for recognition; but the line of intersection is not self-evident. The point on the line of intersection at which the relation becomes observable and observed is Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth.
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Karl Barth in The Epistle to the Romans, Oxford University Press, 1968, p. 29.
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