Exclusivism In The Thinking Of Karl Barth

Question 1

? believed that people can’t know God through their own efforts, but that God chooses to reveal himself through Jesus Christ (present from creation and made known to humanity), through the Bible (what he called a “witness” to the revelation of God in Christ) and through the teachings of the Church (the word of God).

Answer 1

Barth.

Question 2

In his “? of the ?”, Barth asserted that knowledge of God can be found where God chooses to reveal it through his word. The opening of John’s Gospel reads: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”.

Answer 2

Theology.

Word.

Question 3

For Barth, Jesus Christ himself is the only reliable way to genuine knowledge of God, because Jesus’s fully and uniquely the way in which God has chosen to make himself ?

Answer 3

Known.

Question 4

For Barth’s God’s ?-? through Jesus Christ was and is unique. Gods can be known only through Christ.

Answer 4

Self-revelation.

Question 5

Some argue that Barth emphasises that God can and does reveal himself when he chooses, which could leave open the possibility of God choosing to reveal himself in other ?

Answer 5

Ways.