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Karl Barth
(10 May 1886 - 10 Dec 1968)
Swiss theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential Protestant thinkers of the 20th century. He saw the relationship between theology and science as each having its own domain but shared a common search for truth.
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Science Quotes by Karl Barth (4 quotes)
In creation there is not only a Yes but also a No; not only a height but also an abyss; not only clarity but also obscurity; not only progress and continuation but also impediment and limitation … not only value but also worthlessness. It is true that individual creatures and men experience these things in most unequal measure, their lots being assigned by a justice which is curious or very much concealed. Yet it is irrefutable that creation and creature are good even in the fact that all that is exists in this contrast and antithesis.
— Karl Barth
In Church Dogmatics: Part 3: The Doctrine of Creation (1960), 296-297.
No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
— Karl Barth
In opening of 'The Task', Dogmatics in Outline (1949) as translated by G.T. Thomson.
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
— Karl Barth
In Church Dogmatics (), 1:1.
Theology can and must move freely where science … has its appointed limit.
— Karl Barth
In 'Preface', Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Creation, Vol. 3, Pt. 1 (1958, 2007), x. Translators of the book: J.W. Edwards, O. Bussey, H. Knight.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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