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The theological method of Karl Barth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

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The death of Karl Barth on the 10th December 1968 removed from the theological scene one of the greatest thinkers of the Church. Professor T. F. Torrance in an appreciation of him says that he was ‘God's greatest gift to theological science in the whole of the modern era’.

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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1972

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