Barth’s Doctrine of Scripture (2)

Barth's thorough-going criticism of the doctrine of an infallible Bible proceeds from his conception of the Word of God. The Word of God has three important forms. They are Church proclamation, Scripture, and revelation. Of these three forms of the Word of God, Church proclamation and Scripture are the Word of God only conditionally. "They are God's Word, by from time to time becoming God's Word" (CD, I, 1, p. 133). "The Bible is God's Word so far as God lets it be His Word, so far as God's...