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As I peruse the Church Dogmatics, I have the consistent experience of excessive verbiage and of ideas that refuse to achieve closure. It is interÂesting and sometimes even instructive to watch a brilÂliant mind play with concepts and subject them to intense scrutiny from every conceivable angle But Barth's dialectical method, which assumes the imposÂsibility of stating divine truth in human words and therefore continually negates and restates its own imÂpossible formulations, could easily and more instructively have simply stated the problem of formulation between two poles of theological statement - and then passed on to another issue, finally providing the reader with a finished dogmatics in no more than three or four volumes, with no loss of content.
Richard Muller
http://heidelblog.net/2016/08/muller-what-i-havent-learned-from-karl-barth/
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