“Jesus Loves, Me This I Know, for the Bible Tells Me So”
Karl Barth, considered by many to be the leading theologian of the 20th century, is said to have been asked by a student at the University of Chicago during his trip to America in 1962, “Can you summarize your whole life’s work in theology in one sentence?” Barth, 76 at the time, is said to have answered, “Yes, I can, in the words of a song I learned at my mother’s knee: ‘Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.’”…