Karl Barth's understanding of Luther and Calvin is not best illumined by an examination of his direct citation of their work, but by a consideration of his description of their vocation as church fathers as outlined in Church Dogmatics, I/2, a position held with remarkable consistency over the course of his career. Barth's discussion of Luther and Calvin there not only sets forth his understanding of the Reformers in a historical genealogy of revelation and its witnesses, but places them in an ordering of church authorities. Moreover, his description of their unique vocation sheds important light upon his understanding of the modern discipline of church history itself. His treatment of the Reformers thus both exemplifies and follows from his conviction that church history is not an independent theological discipline but can only accompany the central disciplines of exegetical, dogmatic and practical theology.

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改革者作为教会之父：卡尔·巴特（Karl Barth）思想中的路德（Luther）和加尔文（Calvin）

卡尔·巴特对路德和加尔文的理解不是通过检查他对他们工作的直接引用而得到最好的启发，而是考虑到他对他们作为教会父亲的职务的描述，如《教会教义》（I / 2）中概述的那样，这一立场举世瞩目。在他的职业生涯中保持一致。巴特对路德和加尔文的讨论不仅在启示录及其见证人的历史家谱中阐明了他对改革派的理解，而且将他们置于教会权威的命令之下。此外，他对教会独特活动的描述为他对教会历史本身的现代学科的理解提供了重要的启示。