Biography
Karl Barth stressed the total otherness of God and that true knowledge comes only through God's self-revelation in Christ. He opposed Nazi 'German Christians' via the Barmen Declaration (1934).
Key Ideas
- Rejection of natural theology.
- Exclusivism.
- The Church as counter-cultural.
- Barmen Declaration.
Topics Appearing In
Exam Importance
Key across Knowledge of God, Religious Pluralism (exclusivism) and Church in the Modern World.
Works to explore
Use these titles to locate the scholar's argument in context. Edition-specific commercial recommendations are kept on the component reading lists.
- Karl Barth — Church Dogmatics (by the scholar)