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All Blog Posts With Tag: David Guretzki

Karl Barth moved to Bonn, Germany in 1930 to be the chair of systematic theology. In Bonn, Barth would witness firsthand the rise to power of Nazi Germany, write the first volume of his Church Dogmatics (CD I/1), draft the Barmen Declaration, and finally be forced to leave Nazi Germany because […]
 
UPDATE Feb 24, 2017: The Winners are D. John Kinman, Eric Pelletier, and Jeff Carter! Congratulations! David Guretzki's An Explorer's Guide to Karl Barth may be described as a hitchhiker's guide to Karl Barth or a Karl Barth for Dummies. Karl Barth is the author of the 9,000 page Church Dogmatics, and arguably […]
 
David Guretzki's An Explorer's Guide to Karl Barth is a hitchhiker's guide to Karl Barth for the average joe. Karl Barth is notoriously difficult to epitomize and summarize, and other so-called "introductory" books on Karl Barth are very, very difficult to read. Guretzki's Karl Barth is a book that I feel comfortable giving to […]