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relation to such historical theology, he saw value in a
position midway between Roman Catholics who elevated
tradition to a position equal to Scripture and Protestant
"Biblicists" who professed to ignore all tradition,
depending on Scripture alone. He expressed his attitude
toward the church fathers and councils by saying, "To my
mind the whole question of tradition falls under the Fifth
Commandment: Honour father and mother! Certainly that is a
limited authority; we have to obey God more than father and
mother. But we have also to obey father and mother."
Credo. p. 181.
''Barth, 1.1. p. 79.
17Barth, Church Dogmatics 1.2. Translated by G.T.
Thomson and Harold Knight. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark,
1956), p. 744.
leBarth, 1.1. p. 56.
p. 136. (For a succinct description of the
three-fold Word of God, see Evangelical Theology, p. 48,49.
Note also "In the Doctrine of the Trinity all three
'persons' are the same God and in the Doctrine of the Word
of God all three forms are the same Word. But the Son and
the Holy Spirit do not 'become' God, whereas Scripture and
proclamation must 'become' Word of God." From Table Talk.
p. 28.)
20Barth, Prayer. p. 69.
-2 'Barth, Knowledge. p. 214,15.
Barth, "The Task of the Ministry," in The Word.
p. 186,198.
27-c Barth, 1.2. p. 751.
.2 ''Barth, 1.1. p. 57.
p. 111.
p. 57,58.
2.-7Barth, Prayer. p. 73. (Note the content of the
church's proclamation as stated in the following: "The
Church is when it takes place that God lets certain men live
as His servants, His friends, His children, the witnesses of
the reconciliation of the world with Himself as it has taken
place in Jesus Christ, the preachers of the victory which
has been won in Him over sin and suffering and death, the
heralds of His future revelation in which the glory of the
Creator will be declared to all creation as that of His love
and faithfulness and mercy." IV.1. p. 650,51.)
Barth, Prayer. p. 69.
25Tarth, 1.2. p. 711.
p. 720.
p. 726.
p. 727-734. (Cf. this Barth statement: "I
have come to abhor profoundly the spectacle of theology
constantly trying to adjust to the philosophy of its age,
thereby neglecting its own theme." Karl Barth / Rudolf
Bultmann: Letters 1922-66. Edited by Bernd Jaspert.
Translated and further edited by Geoffrey W. Bromiley.
(Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1982), p. 41. Note also "The
existential exegete presupposes not only his own dialogue
with the text, but a specific anthropology, that is, a
pattern of thought. In my case, mistakes are possible; in