The task theology has to fulfill is continually to stimulate and lead [the community] to face squarely the question of the proper relation of their human speech to the Word of God, which is origin, object, and content of this speech. Barth, Karl. Evangelical Theology: An Introduction. William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, Grand Rapids. 1979. p […]

I do not find, on the whole, that evangelicals are prone to unaffected removal from the world. Their world-loving God calls loudly. […] I find a great deal of intense, honest, and communal introspection—a passionate and persistent ambivalence toward the self that is of a piece with their passionate and persistent ambivalence toward their world. […]