We Must Read The Bible Through The

Humor Is The Opposite Of All Self-admiration And Self-praise.

A Free Theologian Works In Communication With Other Theologians...he Waits For Them And Asks Them To Wait For Him. Our Sadly Lacking Yet Indispensable Theological Co-operation Depends Directly Or Indirectly On Whether Or Not We Are Wiling To Wait For One Another, Perhaps Lamenting, Yet Smiling With Tears In Our Eyes.

Take Your Bible And Take Your Newspaper, And Read Both. But Interpret Newspapers From Your Bible.

What Expressions We Used - In Part Taken Over And In Part Newly Invented! Above All, The Famous 'wholly Other' Breaking In Upon Us 'perpendicularly From Above,' The Not Less Famous 'infinite Qualitative Distinction' Between God And Man, The Vacuum, The Mathematical Point, And The Tangent In Which Alone They Must Meet.

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.