Karl Barth’s Conception of the Word of God (1)

from The Doctrine of the Word of God by Karl Barth, translated by G. T. Thomson; T. and T. Clark, 1936. According to the author, this volume contains nothing more than the Romerbrief, the old book made new, i.e., the same old thing said over again in a different way (vii, viii). There is, however, this improvement, that this writing has Very much greater explicitness,” so that “everything has actually become simple and clearer.” In fact, the translator “thinks the English makes sense.” And, by...