”The word ’theology’ includes the concept of the Logos. Theology is logia, logic, or language bound to the theos, which both makes it possible and also determines it. The inescapable meaning og logos is ’word,’ however much Goethe’s Faust felt that he could not possibly rate ’the word’ so highly. The Word is not the only neccessary determination of the place of theology, but it is undoubtedly the first. Theology itself is a word, a human response; yet what makes it theology is not its own word or response but the Word which it hears and to which it responds. Theology stands and falls with the Word of God, for the Word of God precedes all theological words by creating, arousing, and challenging them. Should theology wish to more or less anything other than action in response to that Word, its thinking and speaking would be empty, meaningless and futile.”
Barth, Karl, 1963: Evangelical Theology An Introduction. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co. Omtryckt 1979. S. 16-17.
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