Quotes about Karl Barth

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics

For it is a dangerous book, a book filled with the apocalyptic air of judgement.

Concerning the Investigation of Super-History' (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20—8)