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The Church Dogmatics, Vol IV: Doctrine of Reconciliation
From 1952 until 1967, Karl Barth devoted his time at the University of Basel to writing the unfinished fourth and final volume of the Church Dogmatics: the "Doctrine of Reconciliation" (CD IV). I will summarize this time by summarizing each of the part-volumes […]
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The Church Dogmatics, Vol III: Doctrine of Creation
After World War II ended, Karl Barth's participation in the Confessing Church diminished. His academic work at the University of Basel allowed Barth to continue his magnum opus the Church Dogmatics that he had begun in 1932. In this Part 6, I will discuss […]
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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 […]
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Christiane Tietz's lecture on "Karl Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum" from the Karl Barth Society of North America 2016 meeting was published in Theology Today's July 2017 edition, and in recent weeks, this essay has invoked many unhelpful moralistic and voyeuristic responses to it—despite Tietz's extensive warning. The relationship constellation […]
Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics Ended At A Single Stroke (June 23, 2017)
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics is an unfinished summa theologica, and theological summas are almost always unfinished, and end unexpectedly and abruptly. So it was with Karl Barth as well. In the Christmas season of 1964, Karl Barth suffered a stroke that robbed him of his speech for half a day. Barth […]