Karl Barth

Barth became disillusioned with moral and allegorical sorts of Christianity during the First World War. He noticed that many liberal Christians supported ________ military aggression

Why was Karl Barth disturbed by interpreting the Bible based on values of society?

After the War, he wrote his Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (1919), which was a warning to liberal theology that it had become complacent about God. Barth warned that the world was in a "__________" and being judged by God.

• "time of loss"

• "time of poor economy"

• "time of crisis"

• "time of sin"

Barth's greatest work was his Church Dogmatics (1931), which grew year on year until it filled four volumes with thousands of pages. In the 1930s, Barth campaigned against the _______and their project to distort Christianity to their own ends.

• Heretics

• Atheists

• Zealots

• Nazis

Barth helped found the German Confessing Church to oppose Nazi ideology. He drafted the Barmen Declaration (1934), which declared that true Christianity was always separate from the _______ and did not follow any earthly leader; Christians would have to choose between Jesus Christ or Adolf Hitler as their Lord.

• society

• religion

• state

• law

After the War, Barth worked as a ______________ and delivered widely-read sermons to the prisoners.

• bus driver

• prison chaplain

• teacher at YHKCC

• musician

Barth referred to the Bible as...

• The story of God

• The life of Jesus

• The book of knowledge

• Nothing greater than can be conceived

Barth links Natural Theology to ________

Natural theology is the term for attempts to find out what God is like through using reason and observation. Barth rejects Natural Theology.

Which of the following does Barth reject?

• Design Argument

• Cosmological Argument

• Ontological Argument

• Quest for Historical Jesus

  (inc. Form, Source & Redaction criticism)

What does Barth mean when he says,: ‘One cannot speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice.’?