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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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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