The REVELATION of God in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the judging but also reconciling presence of God in the world of human religion, i.e., in the realm of man's attempts to justify and sanctify himself in the face of an arbitrary and arbitrary conception of God. In this respect, the Church is the place of true religion as long as it lives by grace through grace.
1. The problem of religion in theology
The event of divine revelation must be understood and interpreted as it is attested in the Church of Christ on the basis of St. John the Baptist. The Scriptures. This particular connection, within which theology must work, prompts us to answer the question of how God could (and did)come to man in his revelation, we gave a clear answer: both the reality and the possibility of this event are the existence and action of God alone, and above all, of God the Holy Spirit. Both a reality and an opportunity! We can only distinguish between them for the sake of clarity, but we must also understand that we must look for both in God, and only in God. Therefore, we should not take this distinction too seriously. We cannot fix the reality of revelation in God and then discover it.-
For the original, see: Barth K. Die Kirchliche Dogmatik. Bd. 1. Hbd. 2. 6. Auflage. Zurich, 1975- S. 304 - 310, 313 - 325, 327-331, 335 - 338, 342 - 343, 353 - 359, 362 - 383, 387 - 389, 393 - 395. Translation and publication rights in Russian are kindly provided by TVZ Theologischer Verlag Zurich AG.
page 233need in a person. We can't attribute an event to God and then attribute the event tool and meeting place (Anknilpfungspunkt) to a person. We cannot regard divine grace as something particular, nor human fitness and willingness to accept it as something general: God as matter, and man as form. Similarly, we cannot see the event of revelation as an interaction between God and man, between grace and nature. On the contrary, if we want to remain faithful to the Holy Scriptures as the only relia ...
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