Faith in Tribulation

Faith which presses onwards and leads to sight does not wait for sight in order that it may believe. It believes in the midst of tribulation and persecution. Yes! in the midst of these things; not when their edge has been blunted, because a means of enduring them has been found, or because happiness has …

Barth on Faith

Faith is conversion: it is the radically new disposition of the man who stands naked before God that he may procure the pearl of great price; it is the attitude of the man who for the sake of Jesus has lost his own soul. Faith is the faithfulness of God, ever secreted in and beyond …

Karl Barth on the Gospel that is Jesus Christ

Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans will be a humbling "first read of summer." Barth's words here point to the paradoxically beautiful, powerful, demanding, and comically liberating Gospel that is Jesus Christ. Paul is authorized to deliver—the Gospel of God. He is commissioned to hand over to men something quite new and unprecedented, joyful and …