Carolina QuotesIt is evident that the relation to God with which the Bible is concerned does not have its source in the purple depths of the subconscious, and cannot be identical with what the deep-sea psychical research of our day describes in the narrower or broader sense as libido fulfilment.
Karl Barth Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928)
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- 1928
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