Revelation, Salvation, the Uniqueness of Christ and Other Religions

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-901x|19|3|323-343

ISSN: 0034-4125

Source: Religious Studies, Vol.19, Iss.3, 1983-09, pp. : 323-343

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Abstract

Karl Barth is the foremost modern exponent of the view that Jesus Christ is the decisive, unrepeatable and unsurpassable ‘locus’ of divine revelation, and that consequently it is only by following the way of Christ that we can possibly hope for the ultimate salvation of mankind. This view of Barth's finds expression in the following passage: