Download or read book Final Testimonies written by Karl Barth and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five brief pieces collected here represent the final words prepared by Karl Barth for publication, all of them originating during the period from his serious illness in August of 1968 to his death in December of that same year. The final selection is a fragment left unfinished the night he died. The last word that I have to say as a theologian or politician is not a concept like grace but a name: Jesus Christ. He is grace and he is the ultimate one beyond world and church and even theology. We cannot lay hold of him. But we have to do with him.... There is no salvation but in this name. In him is grace. Karl Barth, 'Final Testimonies'