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

January 1, 1970

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Clergy Christian leaders Academics from Switzerland Christian existentialists Theologians from Switzerland

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In "Karl Barth's Conception of God" (1952) 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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In "Karl Barth's Conception of God" (1952) 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.