Relating to or derived from the theological ideas of Karl Barth, a major 20th-century Swiss Protestant theologian.
Proper adjective formed from Karl Barth's surname with the -ian suffix, created to describe adherents of Barthian theology, which emphasized God's otherness and transcendence.
Barthian theology revolutionized Protestant Christianity in the 20th century by rejecting liberal theology and emphasizing crisis and divine paradox—it's the thinking behind some of the most important theological arguments of our era.
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