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“Forse gli angeli, quando sono intenti a rendere lode a Dio, suonano musica di Bach, ma non ne sono sicuro; sono certo invece, che quando si trovano tra di loro suonano Mozart ed allora anche il Signore trova diletto nell'ascoltarli.”

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Origine: Da Lettera al musicista (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1956); citato in Rosino Gibellini, La teologia del XX secolo: quarta edizione, Editrice Queriniana, Brescia, 1999, p. 28. ISBN 88-399-0369-0

“Sono pensato/amato, quindi sono.”

Karl Barth

“[Su Lourdes] Quella grotta è il luogo dove più evidente appare che cosa sia la mariologia cattolica: un bubbone della cristologia autentica.”

Karl Barth

Origine: Citato in Vittorio Messori, Ipotesi su Maria: fatti, indizi, enigmi, Edizioni Ares, Milano, 2005, p. 45. ISBN 88-8155-338-4

“[Su Mozart] Egli ha colto l'armonia della creazione, ha udito che in essa c'è anche l'oscurità, ma l'oscurità non è tenebre, c'è anche il bisogno, ma il bisogno non è difetto, c'è anche la tristezza, ma non può trasformarsi in disperazione, e anche ciò che vi è di fosco non degenera in tragedia.”

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Dogmatica ecclesiale

“Il Logos, figlio eterno di Dio, non ha voluto essere né un angelo né un animale, ma un uomo.”

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Dogmatica ecclesiale
Origine: Citato in Andrew Linzey, Teologia animale, traduzione di Alessandro Arrigoni, Cosmopolis, Torino, 1998, p. 8. ISBN 978-88-87947-01-4

“La Vergine rappresenta la creatura umana senza potere, senza volere, senza potenza creatrice e sovrana che non può che ricevere, essere disponibile, attendere.”

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Dogmatica ecclesiale

“Una cosa è certa: non è dato alcun diritto teologico di porre, da parte nostra, qualsivoglia limite alla benignità di Dio verso gli uomini, che si è manifestata in Gesù Cristo. Il nostro impegno teologico è quello di vederla e di comprenderla come sempre più grande di quanto la vedessimo e comprendessimo in precedenza.”

Karl Barth

Origine: Da L'umanità di Dio, p. 112.

Frasi su Dio di Karl Barth

“Dio ha toccato il mondo solo in Cristo.”

Karl Barth

Origine: Citato in Vittorio Messori, Ipotesi su Gesù, SEI, Torino, 1976, p. 309.

“In un certo senso Giuda è, al di fuori di Gesù, il personaggio più importante dei Vangeli. Perché egli solo, fra tutti gli apostoli, operò attivamente in quella situazione decisiva al compimento della volontà di Dio, che divenne poi la sostanza del Vangelo.”

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Dogmatica ecclesiale

“La suprema libertà di Dio è in Gesù Cristo la sua libertà di amare.”

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Origine: Da L'umanità di Dio, p. 99.

Karl Barth: Frasi in inglese

“He exists, not only inconceivably as God, but also conceivably as a man; not only above the world, but also in the world, and of the world; not only in a heavenly and invisible, but in an earthly and visible form. He becomes and is, He exists—we cannot avoid this statement; to do so would be the worst kind of Docetism—with objective actuality. Does this mean, then, that He exists as one thing amongst others, and that as such He can be perceived and may be known like other things? Well, we cannot deny that He is a thing like this, and can be perceived and knovra as such, if He was and is a man in the world, with an earthly and visible form. But, of course, a man is not merely a thing or object. As a man among men he is a human Thou, and as such distinct from all mere things.”

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Karl Barth libro Church Dogmatics

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Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)

“When the angels praise God in Heaven I am sure they play Bach. However, en famille they play Mozart, and then God the Lord is especially delighted to listen to them.”

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"Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

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As quoted in Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane : Extraordinary Stories About An Ordinary Place (1994) by Bob Stromberg, p. 69.

“In conclusion, a word about your tired expression that there is a difference between theory and praxis. … Thereby you want to say that praxis should be an unencumbered as possible by theory. Coming from you, this wish is quite intelligible. What you mean by praxis is private profit; what I mean by theory is justice.”

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Origine: "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice" (1911), p. 45

“There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis, because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.”

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Karl Barth libro Church Dogmatics

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Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)

“And now to my socialist friends who are here present: I have said that Jesus wanted what you want, that he wanted to help those who are least, that he wanted to establish the kingdom of God upon this earth, that he wanted to abolish self-seeking property, that he wanted to make persons into comrades. Your concerns are in line with the concerns of Jesus. Real socialism is real Christianity in our time.”

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Origine: "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice" (1911), p. 36

“Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.”

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Origine: "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice" (1911), p. 19

“The doctrine of election is the sum of the Gospel because of all words that can be said or heard it is the best: that God elects man; that God is for man too the One who loves in freedom. It is grounded in the knowledge of Jesus Christ because He is both the electing God and elected man in One. It is part of the doctrine of God because originally God's election of man is a predestination not merely of man but of Himself. Its function is to bear basic testimony to eternal, free and unchanging grace as the beginning of all the ways and works of God.”

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Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)

“When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.”

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On his preaching to prisoners in the Basel jail.
"Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)

“The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

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Statement after the start of World War II
"Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)

“There is no way from us to God — not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa.”

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The god who stood at the end of some human way — even of this way — would not be God.
The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928)

“The name Jesus defines an historical occurence and marks the point where the unknown world cuts the known world... as Christ Jesus is the plane which lies beyond our comprehension. The plane which is known to us, He intersects vertically, from above. Within history Jesus as the Christ can be understood only as Problem or Myth. As the Christ He brings the world of the Father. But we who stand in this concrete world know nothing, and are incapable of knowing anything, of that other world. The Resurrection from the dead is, however, the transformation: the establishing or declaration of that point from above, and the corresponding discerning of it below.”

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Karl Barth libro The Epistle to the Romans

The Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921)

“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed!”

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This is the voice of our conscience, telling us of the righteousness of God. And since conscience is the perfect interpreter of life, what it tells us is no question, no riddle, no problem, but a fact — the deepest, innermost, surest fact of life: God is righteous. Our only question is what attitude toward the fact we ought to take.
We shall hardly approach the fact with our critical reason. The reason sees the small and the larger but not the large. It sees the preliminary, but not the final, the derived but not the original, the complex but not the simple. It sees what is human but not what is divine.
We shall hardly be taught this fact by men.
"The Righteousness of God" (1916) in The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928) as translated by Douglas Horton; this passage begins with a quote of Isaiah 40:3-5; often quoted alone has been the phrase following it: "Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life."