The meaning of the conquest of the kingdom of death and Jesus Christ's descent into hell lies in the universal scope of salvation.

Theology and Christian devotion would do better to learn how to live with the alien character of the figure of Jesus.

The doctrine of the incarnation only develops in retrospect what the raising of Jesus means for the whole of his earthly activity & person.

The resurrection of Jesus was not a return to life as we know it; it was a transformation into an entirely new life.

All talk about God must validate itself by being able to make the world of experience a proof of its power.

In the doctrine of the Trinity distinction must not imply separation.

Biblical eschatology is not a flight from this world.

The future of God has already dawned.

Distinction does not vanish in unity... The unity of the living God is a unity in distinction.

It is a dubious procedure to try to derive from the idea of first cause more concrete statements about God.

The Spirit is given to believers, and by receiving the Spirit they have a share in the divine sonship of Jesus.

The OT history nowhere suggests that the God who addressed himself to Abraham and his successors was totally unknown to all others.

I believe that everything comes from God in such a way that God could have been God without creating the world.

The doctrine of the Trinity is an anticipatory sum of the whole content of Christian dogmatics.

The universality of sin makes possible the universality of salvation and redemption (Rom. 11.32; 3.21ff.).

#Barth demanded that we base the doctrine of the Trinity on the revelation of God in Christ. He did not succeed in meeting his own demand.

A systematic grounding & development of the doctrine of the Trinity must begin with the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.

Acknowledgment of the lordship of Christ is unconvincing if it does not determine a Christian's behavior.

We should learn about love from the Bible. We shouldn’t turn the Bible around into what we think is love.

“Human exocentricity compels [people] to find outside themselves a center that will give unity and identity to their lives." Wolfhart Pannenberg