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After March 26th, 1935 Karl Barth was deported from Nazi Germany via police escort to Switzerland because he refused to sign the Nazi "Oath of Loyalty" without modification to Adolf Hitler (also known as "Hitler's Oath"). After arriving in Switzerland, Barth became the Professor of Systematic Theology at the University […]
 
T. F. Torrance is a scientific theologian. In a way, all theology is science, as Karl Barth said at the very beginning of the Church Dogmatics I/1: "As a theological discipline dogmatics is the scientific self-examination of the Christian Church with respect to the content of its distinctive talk about […]
 
Updated: May 15th, 2019 Is the Bible the Word of God? Karl Barth answered No! because "the Bible is not in itself and as such God’s past revelation" [1] and that "we thus do the Bible poor and unwelcome honour if we equate it directly with this other, with revelation itself." […]
 
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 […]
 
Karl Barth said that everything the Church confesses may be described as "human talk about god". Not all human talk is about god but everything that the Church speaks is human talk and this includes the biblical writings, the creeds and other symbols, prayers, preaching, and virtually everything it expresses. […]
 
Karl Barth proposed that the Trinitarian formula of "one God in three persons" be updated to "one God in three modes of being" (or "... ways of being"). Is Barth teaching Sabellian modalism? No! The reason for the change, is that Barth believed that the word "person" has substantially changed in meaning to include an "attribute […]
 
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics was a theological summa published between 1932 and 1967 that spanned 9257 pages.  The English translations lagged many years behind the German original publications, so as an English reader of Barth, I have struggled to find the original publication dates of each volume of the Church Dogmatics. So, I've created […]
 
It's Christmas season, and it is a great time to give the gift of Karl Barth! Here are my recommendations for which Barth books to buy for yourself or loved ones this holiday season. I've recommended below two editions of The Church Dogmatics and my top ten books by Karl Barth […]
 
The results from my "What's your favorite volume of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics?" are in! The winner is a tie between The Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of God, Vol. II/2 (CD II/2) and The Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Vol. IV/1 (CD IV/1). I'm not surprised that these two volumes would be neck and […]
 
What is your favorite volume of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics? Church Dogmatics I/1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 1 Church Dogmatics I/2: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 2 Church Dogmatics II/1: The Doctrine of God, Part 1 Church Dogmatics II/2: The Doctrine of God, […]