Karl Barth citáty
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Karl Barth byl švýcarský protestantský teolog, iniciátor a vůdčí osobnost tzv. dialektické teologie . Řada autorů jej považuje za nejvýznamnějšího a nejvlivnějšího teologa 20. století.Mezi nejvýznamnější Barthova díla patří jeho komentář k Pavlovu listu Římanům a především několikasvazková Církevní dogmatika . V nich se snaží navázat na teologii kříže, zdůrazňuje Boží moc a iniciativu. Barth přijímá kritiku náboženství a sám kritizuje lidskou snahu se dostat k Bohu. Oproti tomu staví víru, že Bůh ve své lásce sestoupí k lidem sám. Víra se tak stává spíše pasivním přijetím toho, že tím, kdo je aktivní, je Bůh.

Z Čechů byl Barthovým přítelem evangelický teolog Josef Lukl Hromádka, studovali u něj také například biblista Jan Heller či husitský teolog Zdeněk Kučera. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. květen 1886 – 10. prosinec 1968
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Karl Barth nejznámější citáty

„Láska neklade otázky, láska dává odpovědi.“

Originál: (en) Liebe fragt nicht, sondern sie gibt Antwort.
Zdroj: [Barth, Karl, 1957, Bd. Die Lehre von der Schöpfung, Evangelischer Verlag, 248, němčina]

„Hleďte, vánoční historie se neděje bez nás, my do té historie patříme.“

Vězňům otevření žaláře

„Těšit se znamená hledat příležitost odvděčit se.“

Originál: (en) Sich freuen heißt: ausschauen nach herbeikommenden Gelegenheiten zur Dankbarkeit.
Zdroj: Bd. Die Lehre von der Schöpfung, str. 431

Karl Barth: Citáty anglicky

“Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.”

As quoted in An Introduction to Protestant Theology (1982) by Helmut Gollwitzer, p. 174.

“Nothing is more characteristic of the Hegelian system of knowledge than the fact that upon its highest pinnacle, where it becomes knowledge of knowledge, i. e. knowledge knowing of itself, it is impossible for it to have any other content but simply the history of philosophy, the account of its continuing self-exposition, in which all individual developments, coming full circle, can only be stages along the road to the absolute philosophy reached in Hegel himself. But that which knowledge is explicitly upon this topmost pinnacle as the history of philosophy, the philosophy completed in Hegel, it is implicitly all along the line: the knowledge of history and the history of knowledge, the history of truth, the history of God, as Hegel was able to say: the philosophy of History. History here has entered so thoroughly into reason, philosophy has so basically become the philosophy of history, that reason, the object of philosophy itself, has become history utterly and completely, that reason cannot understand itself other than a sits own history, and that, from the opposite point of view, it is in a position to recognize itself at once in all history in some stage of its life-process, and also in its entirety, so far as the study permits us to divine the whole. It is a matter of the production of self-movement of the thought-content in the consciousness of the thinking subject. It is not a matter of reproduction! The Hegelian way of looking is the looking of a spectator only in so far as it is in fact in principle and exclusively theory, thinking consciousness. Granting this premise, and setting aside Kierkegaard’s objection that with it the spectator might by chance have forgotten himself, that is the practical reality of his existence, then for Hegel it is also in order (only too much in order!) that the human subject, whilst looking in this manner, stands by no means apart as if it were not concerned. It is in this looking that the something seen is produced. And the thing seen actually has its reality in the fact that it is produced as the thing seen in the looking of the human subject. Man cannot participate more energetically (within the frame-work of theoretical possibility), he cannot be more forcefully transferred from the floor of the theatre on to the stage than in his theory.”

Karl Barth Protestant Thought From Rousseau to Ritschl, 1952, 1959 p. 284-285
Protestant Thought From Rousseau to Ritschl 1952, 1956

“God Himself is the nearest to hand, as the absolutely simple must be, and at the same time the most distant, as the absolutely simple must also be. God Himself is the irresolvable and at the same time that which fills and embraces everything else. God Himself in His being for Himself is the one being which stands in need of nothing else and at the same time the one being by which every thing else came into being and exists. God Himself is the beginning in which everything begins, with which we must and can always begin with confidence and without need of excuse. And at the same time He is the end in which everything legitimately and necessarily ends, with which we must end with confidence and without need of excuse. God Himself is simple, so simple that in all His glory He can be near to the simplest perception and also laugh at the most profound or acute thinking so simple that He reduces everyone to silence, and then allows and requires everyone boldly to make Him the object of their thought and speech. He is so simple that to think and speak correctly of Him and to live correctly before Him does not in fact require any special human complexities or for that matter any special human simplicities, so that occasionally and according to our need He may permit and require both human complexity and human simplicity, and occasionally they may both be forbidden us…”

Karl Barth kniha Church Dogmatics

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Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)

“The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.”

As quoted in Quotations from the Wayside (1998) by Brenda Wong, p. 78.

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain.”

In "Karl Barth's Conception of God" (1952) http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol2/520102BarthsConceptionOfGod.pdf by Martin Luther King, Jr., King cites this as a statement of Barth's in The Epistle to the Romans, p. 91, but it does not actually appear in the 1933 translation of Edwin Hoskyns. It may be a paraphrase of some of Barth's ideas which were incorrectly cited.
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“Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.”

As quoted in The Beginnings of Dialectic Theology, Vol. 1 (1968) edited by James M. Robinson

“The center is not something which is under our control, but something that controls us.”

This has been widely cited to Church Dogmatics, but without citations to volume or chapter, and has not been located in this form in existing translations of that work.
Disputed

“Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.”

As quoted in An Almanac of the Christian Church (1987) by William D. Blake.

“For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.”

On the lack of passionate resistence to Nazi policies of persecution of Jews, even in the Confessing Church he helped found in opposition to Nazi influences on churches, in a letter written before leaving Germany in 1935, as quoted in Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1997) by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, p. 437.

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