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We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
Man can certainly keep on lying (and he does so); but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel (he does so); but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
To look to Him is to see Him at the very centre, to see Him and the history which, accomplished in Him, heals everything and all things, as the mystery, reality, origin and goal of the whole world, all men, all life.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved — in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved — in virtue of what God can do.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
Church Dogmatics (1932)
At bottom, knowledge of God in faith is always this indirect knowledge of God, knowledge of God in His works, and in these particular works in the determining and using of certain creaturely realities to bear witness to the divine objectivity. What distinguishes faith from unbelief, erroneous faith and superstition is that it is content with this indirect knowledge of God.
Church Dogmatics (1932)