The Knowledge of God and the Service of God According to the Teaching of the Reformation

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This volume presents Karl Barth's lectures as part of the prestigious Gifford lectureship in which he focuses on the knowledge and service of God, relating particularly to the 1560 Scottish Reformation. He notes: "These lectures on that teaching [of the Reformed church on natural theology] will not take the form of an independent outline, but will be connected with a document' of the Reformation. Further, taking into account the specifically Scottish character of the Gifford foundation, this document will be a document of the Scottish' Reformation. I am letting John Knox and his friend speak in their Confessio Scotica of 1560. This is not to take the form of an historical analysis of the Scottish Confession, but that of a theological paraphrase and elucidation of the document as it speaks today and as we today by a careful objective examination of its content can hear it speak."