Swiss Protestant theologian Karl Barth is widely regarded as one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the twentieth century. He taught at universities in Göttingen, Münster and Bonn (Germany). He is the principal author of The Barmen Declaration that rejected Nazism and a leader of the German Confessing Church that resisted Hitler. He lost his position in Bonn because of his stance against Nazism and completed his career teaching at the University of Basel (Switzerland). Barth rejected liberalism, favoring instead a God-centered theology. He believed in a transcendent “wholly other” God completely separate from the world. Dr. King was skeptical of this idea, maintaining instead that God was both transcendent and immanent, knowable through the life of Jesus and personal religious experience. Barth and King met briefly at Princeton University in 1962.