Where does Barth say that one should “read the Bible in one hand, and the newspaper in the other”?
Although frequently cited, the Barth Center has thus far not been able to discover an authoritative source for this quotation. Barth did occasionally make similar remarks. In an interview from 1966, for example, he stated, “Der Pfarrer und die Gläubigen sollten sich nicht einbilden, dass sie eine religiöse Gesellschaft sind, die sich um bestimmte Themen herum dreht, sondern sie leben in der Welt. Wir brauchen doch – nach meiner alten Formulierung – die Bibel und die Zeitung.” [“The Pastor and the Faithful should not deceive themselves into thinking that they are a religious society, which has to do with certain themes; they live in the world. We still need – according to my old formulation – the Bible and the Newspaper.”] Eberhard Bush, editor of that volume of the Karl Barth Gesamtausgabe (Karl Barth Collected Edition) notes that Barth made similar remarks in his letters to his friend, Eduard Thurneysen (Cf. Barth to Thurneysen on 11.11.1918: “Nun brütet man abwechselnd über der Zeitu
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