Carl Bart was an influential reform theologian from Switzerland who died in the late 1960s.

What did he have to say that might interest on Oneness Pentecostals?

We'll find out next on this episode of Apostolic Life in the 21st Century.

Welcome to Apostolic Life in the 21st Century, a podcast dedicated to helping modern-day believers

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teaches and how those teachings apply to everyday life. I think anybody who's read your book

Anchor Points might have been intrigued when they read your chapter that you dedicated to the writings of the Swiss theologian Carl Barth.

You called Barth arguably the most significant theologian of the 20th century. That's pretty high praise.

And you wrote that in your doctoral thesis. You suggested that Barth could be a key resource for helping

Oneness and Trinitarian theologians to assess their respective views and interact with each other.

I'm going to guess that a lot of people in our audience don't know who Carl Barth is.

So maybe you could explain who he is and tell us why he's important.

Why do you like Carl Bar Barr so much and why do you

think his work is important for one of those Pentecostals? Yes, let me, I'll give you an overview and

then give you a practical reason why I had this particular discussion. But Carl Bart, as you

stated, was a Swiss theologian. He also studied and taught in

Germany for many years because he was German-speaking Swiss. And he was reformed. So he really

became, I think both Catholics and Protestants would say he was probably the most well-known

theologian of the 20th century. He wrote a massive theology, systematic theology,

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