{"id":2429,"date":"2016-09-27T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2016-09-27T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:12:39","slug":"barth-on-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2429","title":{"rendered":"Barth on \u201cand\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1963 Karl Barth said: &#8220;The greatest obstacle to reunion between Protestants and Catholics is a little word which the Catholic Church adds after nearly every one of our Protestant affirmations. It is the little word \u2018<strong>and<\/strong>.\u2019 When we say Jesus, Catholics say &#8216;Jesus <strong>and<\/strong> Mary&#8217;. We seek to obey Christ, our only Lord: Catholics obey Christ <strong>and<\/strong> his Vicar on earth, the Pope. We believe the Christian is saved through the merits of Jesus Christ: Catholics add, &#8216;<strong>and<\/strong> our own merits&#8217;, that is, because of works. We believe the sole source of Revelation is Scripture: Catholics add <em>&#8216;<\/em><strong>and<\/strong> Tradition&#8217;. We say knowledge of God is obtained by faith in His word expressed in Scripture: Catholics add <strong>and<\/strong> by reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barth concludes: &#8220;Practically the whole problem comes to discussing in what measure we can agree on the sense to be given to this little word \u2018<strong>and<\/strong>\u2019<em>&#8220;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(\u201cKarl Barth: His Views on the New Oecumenical Climate,\u201d <em>The Tablet <\/em>[March 2, 1963] 24.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1963 Karl Barth said: &#8220;The greatest obstacle to reunion between Protestants and Catholics is a little word which the Catholic Church adds after nearly every one of our Protestant affirmations. It is the little word \u2018and.\u2019 When we say Jesus, Catholics say &#8216;Jesus and Mary&#8217;. We seek to obey Christ, our only Lord: Catholics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}