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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Karl Barth
Born: May 10, 1886
Died: December 10, 1968 (aged 82)
Bio: Karl Barth was a Swiss Reformed theologian who is often regarded as the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. Pope Pius XII called him the most important Christian theologian since St. Thomas Aquinas.
Known for:
- Church Dogmatics
- Evangelical Theology: An Introduction (1963)
- The Epistle to the Romans (1933)
- Dogmatics in Outline (1947)
- The Göttingen dogmatics
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