Karl Barth Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.

  Karl Barth

  Church, Matter, Barbarians

  Karl Barth (2005). “God In Action: Theological Addresses”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Church, Christ

  Karl Barth (1981). “Letters, 1961-1968”

• Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

  Karl Barth

  Criticism, Church, Repetitive

  Karl Barth, Thomas Forsyth Torrance (1975). “Church Dogmatics: pt. 1. The doctrine of the word of God”, Continuum International Publishing Group

• Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.

  Karl Barth

  Church

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)”, p.823, A&C Black

• That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Loneliness, Passion

  Karl Barth (2017). “The Christian Life”, p.240, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

  Karl Barth

  Church, Doctrine, Testing

• The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Heaven, Church

• For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.

  Karl Barth

  Heart, Suffering, Church

  "Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust". Book by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, 1997.

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