Digital Logos Edition
Karl Barth saw Chapter 15 as the center of 1 Corinthians, arguing that a misunderstanding of the resurrection underlies all the problems in Corinth. In this volume, he develops his view of biblical eschatology, asserting that chapter 15 is key to understanding the testimony of the New Testament. Barth understood the “last things” not as an end to history but as an “end-history” with which any period is faced.
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“It is not truth that is threatened, but men in their relation to truth” (Page 126)
“God always remains the subject in the relationship created by this testimony. He is not transformed into the object, into man’s having the right to the last word: otherwise it is no longer this testimony, this relationship.” (Page 16)
“nothing accidental and peripheral, but the foundation and the centre, by virtue of which they are Christians” (Page 125)
“and even the angels, to test and distinguish spirits, to recognize” (Page 29)
“The dead: that is what we are. The risen: that is what we are not.” (Page 108)