“The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.”

— Karl Barth

The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928), p. 72

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Swiss Protestant theologian 1886–1968

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“Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.”

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Context: Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.<!-- p. 312