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Died. Karl Barth, 82, eminent Swiss theologian and one of the most influential religious thinkers of the century (see RELIGION...
...Protestant theologian who labored quietly in university towns of Switzerland and Germany for half a century. The other was a Roman Catholic monk who worked hermitlike on his writings in the hills of central Kentucky. But while Karl Barth gave his life to scholarship and Thomas Merton to contemplation, both men were Christian activists who found in the Word a command to do. Barth stood courageously against Nazi totalitarianism. Merton drove himself endlessly in championing the cause of the poor and oppressed. On their journey toward their deaths last week, each brought to his age, and to his fellow...
...KARL BARTH...
...believe in Christ has always been, as Kierkegaard put it, an inexplicable leap of faith. The most profound preacher of that mystery in the 20th century was Karl Barth, who died last week at the age of 82. Eulogized as the century's most significant religious thinker, Barth changed the course of Protestant theology in his lifetime almost singlehandedly. Though he abhorred theological systems, he produced, in his 14-volume Church Dogmatics, the most powerful exposition of Protestant thought since Calvin's Institutes...
...Harvard basketball team has not had a great week. Wednesday night, they lost to Navy, 70-58. Thursday afternoon, just before practice, two year letterman Barth Royer revealed that doctors had forbidden him to play for the rest of the season. And tonight, the Crimson faces one of New England's better small college teams, Springfield, in the second contest of a four-game road trip...