Archive for July 14th, 2009

I didn’t know Karl Barth was so involved with Columbus, Ohio’s police department, but I found a statement by him that is likely unknown to Barthian scholars–

“Most accidents are caused by driver inattention combined with too much speed”…

[and in classic Barthian paradox] “And, of course, in the most serious accidents, one or two types of things almost always occurs: speed and drunk driving,” Barth said. “Sometimes both.”

Question to ponder: what does this mean for our understanding of his “dialectical” method? Did Barth abandon it?

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