I wish I would have heard this in college, and it would probably be wise to heed it now.
he saw evidence of the ‘vices of German youth: they make a guillotine out of any principle they hardly understand, and chop off heads with it indiscriminately.’
Eberhard Busch, Karl Barth: His life from letters and autobiographical texts, trans. John Bowden (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975), 203.
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