Barth famously said: “Preach with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other,” and of course the Bible is trump. But Barth also famously rejected law and gospel for gospel and law. It makes all the difference.
When Bishop Duane C. Pederson (NW WI) in The Lutheran (August, 2010, pp. 24-25) advocates the Barthian approach, it is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Either he is woefully ignorant or he is woefully ignorant. Lutherans have proclaimed law and gospel, and these categories do not come second. Of course we take up context and Scripture, but primary is Christ alone through grace (the cross) alone by faith alone.