Sin Is Not Confined To

What Happened On That Day (of Easter) Became, Was And Remained The Centre Around Which Everything Else Moves. For Everything Lasts Its Time, But The Love Of God - Which Was At Work And Was Expressed In The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ From The Dead - Lasts Forever. Because This Event Took Place, There Is No Reason To Despair, And Even When We Read The Newspaper With All Its Confusing And Frightening News, There Is Every Reason To Hope.

The Angels Laugh At Old Karl. They Laugh At Him Because He Tries To Grasp The Truth About God In A Book Of Dogmatics. They Laugh At The Fact That Volume Follows Volume, And Each Is Thicker Than The Previous Ones. As They Laugh, They Say To One Another, ‘look! Here He Comes Now With His Little Pushcart Full Of Volumes Of The Dogmatics!’—and They Laugh About The Persons Who Write So Much About Karl Barth Instead Of Writing About The Things He Is Trying To Write About. Truly, The Angels Laugh.

Theology Is Not A Private Subject For Theologians Only. Nor Is It A Private Subject For Professors. Fortunately, There Have Always Been Pastors Who Have Understood More About Theology Than Most Professors. Nor Is Theology A Private Subject Of Study For Pastors. Fortunately, There Have Repeatedly Been Congregation Members, And Often Whole Congregations, Who Have Pursued Theology Energetically While Their Pastors Were Theological Infants Or Barbarians. Theology Is A Matter For The Church.

In Dogmatics Our Question Is: What Are We To Think And Say?

That The Zeal For God's Honor Is Also A Dangerous Passion, That The Christian Must Bring With Him The Courage To Swim Against The Tide Instead Of With It... Accept A Good Deal Of Loneliness, Will Perhaps Be Nowhere So Clear And Palpable As In The Church, Where He Would So Much Like Things To Be Different. Yet He Cannot And He Will Not Refuse To Take This Risk And Pay This Price... He Belongs Where The Reformation Of The Church Is Underway Or Will Again Be Underway.