The Life of Karl Barth: Protesting in Nazi Germany 1930-1935 (Part 4) (June 8, 2018)

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 […]

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The Life of Karl Barth: The Romans road to the Church Dogmatics 1921-1930 (Part 3) (May 7, 2018)

Karl Barth left his pastoral work at Safenwil in 1921 to become Honorary Professor of Reformed theology at the University of Göttingen, due to the successful first edition of his commentary on The Epistle to the Romans (Der Romerbrief, 1919). At this same time, Barth had completed the second edition […]

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