Barth for Breakfast

This is Barth speaking on the balance between contextualizing and faithfulness and respect to theology:

"In each age and by each responsible theologian the best definitions, combinations and conclusions must always be sought and found afresh in dogmatics with a continually new desire for obedience. But however things may be seen or pondered or stated as a whole or in detail, the standpoints from which this must be done are not a matter of arbitrary investigation, discovery and assertion. Apart from all else, they are given in and with the name of Jesus Christ."