Karl Barth (1886-1968) was a Swiss
theologian, widely influential among
current social pessimists. God, he holds,
is wholly other than man, not
apprehensible by man's reason nor
attainable by human endeavor. Christianity
is a revealed and supernatural religion.
Man must trust God's plan of salvation or
be doomed to utter ruin. The Barthian
position is called "crisis theology" and
"dialectical theology."