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Barth, Karl - bärt, 1886–1968, Swiss Protestant theologian, one of the leading thinkers of 20th-century Protestantism. He helped to found the Confessing Church and his thinking formed the theological framework for the Barmen Declaration. He taught in Germany, where he early opposed the Nazi regime. In 1935 when he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler, he was

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Portrait of Karl Barth » Read Now
by Karl Barth, Georges Casalis. 138 pgs.

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The Hastening That Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics » Read Now
by Nigel Biggar. 200 pgs.

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This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of Karl Barth, one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians. In it, the author seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and also presents a picture of it as a whole. Drawing on recently...
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This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of Karl Barth, one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians. In it, the author seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and also presents a picture of it as a whole. Drawing on recently published sources, Biggar construes the ethics of the Church Dogmatics as it might have been had Barth lived to complete it. However, The Hastening that Waits is more than apology and description. For it recommends to contemporary Christian ethics the theological rigor with which Barth expounds the good life in terms of the living presence of God-in-Christ to his creatures; his conception of right human action as that which is able to hasten in the service of humanity precisely by waiting prayerfully upon God; and his discriminate openness to moral wisdom outside the Christian church. Among particular topics treated are: the concepts of human freedom and of created moral order; moral norms and their relation to individual vocation; the relative ethical roles of the Bible, the Church, philosophy, and empirical science; moral character and its formation; and the problem of war.
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God Here and Now » Read Now
by Karl Barth. 144 pgs.

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Karl Barth was, without doubt, one of the most significant religious thinkers of modern times. His radical affirmation of the revealed truth of Christianity changed the course of Christian theology in the twentieth century and is a source of inspiration for countless believers. Pope Pius XII...
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Karl Barth was, without doubt, one of the most significant religious thinkers of modern times. His radical affirmation of the revealed truth of Christianity changed the course of Christian theology in the twentieth century and is a source of inspiration for countless believers. Pope Pius XII declared that there had been nothing like Karl Barth's later thought since Thomas Aquinas. God Here and Now offers a succinct and accessible overview of that thought. In it, Barth outlines his position on the fundamental tenets of Christian belief, from the decision of faith to the authority of the Bible, and from the interpretation of grace to the significance of Jesus Christ. In this way Barth challenges each and every reader to discover what it means to encounter God, here and now.
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How to Serve God in a Marxist Land » Read Now
by Karl Barth, Johannes Hamel. 126 pgs.

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The Only Way: How Can the Germans Be Cured? » Read Now
by Karl Barth, Marta K. Neufeld, Ronald Gregor Smith. 122 pgs.

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Theology and Church: Shorter Writings, 1920-1928 » Read Now
by Karl Barth, Louise Pettibone Smith. 358 pgs.

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Karl Barth: Against Hegemony » Read Now
by Timothy Gorringe. 314 pgs.

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Karl Barth (1886-1968) was the most prolific theologian of the twentieth century. Avoiding simple paraphrasing, Dr Gorringe places the theology in its social and political context, from the First World War through to the Cold War by following Barth's intellectual development through the years that...
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Karl Barth (1886-1968) was the most prolific theologian of the twentieth century. Avoiding simple paraphrasing, Dr Gorringe places the theology in its social and political context, from the First World War through to the Cold War by following Barth's intellectual development through the years that saw the rise of national socialism and the development of communism. Barth initiated a theological revolution in his two Commentaries on Romans, begun during the First World War. His attempt to deepen this during the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic made him a focus of theological resistance to Hitler after the rise to power of the Nazi party. Expelled from Germany, he continued to defy fashionable opinion by refusing to condemn communism after the Second World War. Drawing on a German debate largely ignored by Anglo-Saxon theology Dr Gorringe shows that Barth responds to the events of his time not just in his occasional writings, but in his magnum opus, the Church Dogmatics. In conclusion Dr Gorringe asks what this admittedly patriarchal author still has to contribute to contemporary theology, and in particular human liberation.
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The Mystery of God: Karl Barth and the Postmodern Foundations of Theology » Read Now
by William Stacy Johnson. 224 pgs.

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The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today.
Volumes in this series are intended for scholars, theologians, pastors, and lay...
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The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today.
Volumes in this series are intended for scholars, theologians, pastors, and lay people who are committed to faith in search of understanding.
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That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew: Karl Barth's Docrine of Israel » Read Now
by Katherine Sonderegger. 194 pgs.

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A Dubious Christological Formula: From Leontius of Byzantium to Karl Barth, in Theological Studies » Read Now
by F. LeRon Shults. 28 pgs.

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Communism and the Theologians: Study of an Encounter (Chap. 5 "Revelation and Ideology: Karl Barth" and Chap. 6 "History and Politics: Barth and His Critics") » Read Now
by Charles C. West. 399 pgs.

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Living Options in Protestant Theology: A Survey of Methods (Chap. 7 "Karl Barth") » Read Now
by John B. Cobb. 336 pgs.

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Deity and Domination: Images of God and the State in the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries ("Karl Barth" begins on p. 108) » Read Now
by David Nicholls. 321 pgs.

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This book explores the relations between Christianity and politics, examines the analogy between divine and civil government and considers what images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the twentieth century.
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Theology, Hermeneutics, and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity (Discussion of Karl Barth begins on p. 143) » Read Now
by Garrett Green. 229 pgs.

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This book explores the contemporary crisis of biblical interpretation by examining modern and postmodern forms of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion'. Garrett Green looks at several thinkers who played key roles in creating a radically suspicious reading of the Bible. After Kant, Hamann, and Feuerbach...
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This book explores the contemporary crisis of biblical interpretation by examining modern and postmodern forms of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion'. Garrett Green looks at several thinkers who played key roles in creating a radically suspicious reading of the Bible. After Kant, Hamann, and Feuerbach comes Nietzsche, who marked the turn from modern to postmodern suspicion. Green argues that similarities between Derrida's deconstruction and Barth's theology of signs show that postmodern suspicion ought not to be viewed simply as a threat to theology but as a secular counterpart to its own hermeneutical insights. When theology attends to its proper task of describing the grammar of scriptural imagination, it discovers a source of suspicion more radical than the secular, the hermeneutical expression of God's gracious judgement. Green concludes that Christians are committed to the hermeneutical imperative, the never-ending struggle for the meaning of scripture in the hopeful insecurity of the faithful imagination.
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