Barth’s Doctrine of Scripture (1)

In The Word of God and the Word of Man, Barth remarks on the so-called "formal principle" of the Reformation, the principle of the sole authority of the Bible, and, in one statement, shows his deep disagreement with the historic, Reformed estimation of Scripture: The Reformers "had the courage to allow so accidental, contingent, and human a thing as the Bible to become a serious witness of the revelation of God, to allow a book which was in itself profane to becomeHoly Scripture" (in the...