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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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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 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 […]
In part one of The Life of Karl Barth series, I discussed Karl Barth's early life from his birth in 1886 until he left the University of Marburg and his pastoral work in Geneva in 1911. In part two, I will discuss the next ten years in Barth's life when […]
Karl Barth (May 10, 1886–December 10, 1968) was a Swiss Reformed Protestant theologian and arguably the greatest theologian of the last two centuries. He was a prolific author who is most well known for his commentary on The Epistle to the Romans (2nd ed.), his thirteen volume systematic theology the Church Dogmatics (CD), and […]