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Did Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer ever meet?

This question goes back nearly 20 years when I asked Professor Busch (who wrote a most insightful biography on Karl Barth) as I couldn’t find anything neither in Günsbach nor in Zürich where most of Schweitzer’s writing are being stored. But now – equipped with a national license to the digital Barth library– I found a letter of Barth to Thurneysen that makes such a meeting likely in November 1928 Continue reading Did Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer ever meet?