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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Karl Barth was born 10 May 1886 and trained in the liberal theology of Harnack and Schleiermacher. As a pastor in the rural Swiss town of Safenwil — where locals called him the "Red Pastor" — he grew disillusioned with the tradition he'd inherited. In 1919 he published the first edition of The Epistle to the Romans, resolving to read the New Testament differently. The 1921 second edition openly broke from liberal theology and brought him worldwide acclaim. He went on to author nearly all of the Barmen Declaration for the Confessing Church and began his multi-volume Church Dogmatics in 1932, a theological summa he would never finish before his death on 10 December 1968. His influence stretched from Bonhoeffer and Niebuhr to novelists like Flannery O'Connor and John Updike.