James Simmon Balagtas

Karl Barth is/was a Swiss Reformed theologian He was born May 10, 1886 and Died December 10, 1968

Simmon Balagtas      STEM111-1A He was a Swiss Reformed theologian who is often regarded as the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. His influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture, leading him to be featured on the cover of Time on April 20, 1962. Beginning with his experience as a pastor, Barth rejected his training in the predominant liberal theology typical of 19th-century European Protestantism. He also rejected more conservative forms of Christianity. Instead he embarked on a new theological path initially called dialectical theology due to its stress on the paradoxical nature of divine truth (e.g., God's relationship to humanity embodies both grace and judgment). Many critics have referred to Barth as the father of neo-orthodoxy] – a term that Barth emphatically rejected. A more charitable description of his work might be "a theology of the Word. Barth's work had a profound impact on twentieth century theolo...