Robert Matthias Barth was the fourth of five children of Swiss theologian Karl Barth and his wife, Nelly. At the age of 20 he fell to his death in a tragic climbing accident on the Frundenhorn mountain. His father preached his funeral sermon, which can be found in "This Incomplete One: Words Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person." That sermon is based on 1 Corinthians 13:12, "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known."
Robert Matthias Barth was the fourth of five children of Swiss theologian Karl Barth and his wife, Nelly. At the age of 20 he fell to his death in a tragic climbing accident on the Frundenhorn mountain. His father preached his funeral sermon, which can be found in "This Incomplete One: Words Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person." That sermon is based on 1 Corinthians 13:12, "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known."
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