“if we face the fact of the church’s humanity, we cannot release it from the task of pursuing academic theology and we must thus accept in principle the task of a regular dogmatics.”
Dogmatics I.1 p277
Karl Barth
The Best Imitation of Myself
“if we face the fact of the church’s humanity, we cannot release it from the task of pursuing academic theology and we must thus accept in principle the task of a regular dogmatics.”
Dogmatics I.1 p277
Karl Barth
“but, unlike charity, benevolence as a virtue became a license for almost any kind of manipulative intervention in the affairs of others”
Alasdair Macintyre
After Virtue 3rd edition
p232