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Editor Rusty Reno is with us again to talk about a subject in this month's public square.

First question, Rusty, when did you first encounter Carl Barth?

Yes, Carl Barth. You know, my charming wife wrote a, she took a class and she turned in a paper where Carl Bart's name was misspelled every time. And Carl Bortth, and yes, Carl Bortth. And yes,

Carl Bart, not Carl Bars, you know, the Germans, they, they, yeah, Carl Bart, not Carl Barth.

You know, the Germans, they don't go with the TH diphthong.

They just come across as a straight on hard tea.

I was in a class at Haverford College, and I, gosh, I think it was a class on 19th century

religious thought. Of course, you couldn't say theology at the Haverford Liberal Arts

College, but it was really basically a class on 19th century Protestant theology from

Kant's religion within the limits of reason alone, through Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard.

I think we read Ernst Trelch, The Absoluteness of Christianity.

I was probably the only college student, sort of the only college class in America undergraduate

class that read that book by Ernst T trowell's and it ended with carl bart even though his

letter to the romans commentary was published in 1919 it it's the course was the great liberal

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