The Early Barth: Lectures and Shorter Works, Volume 1, 1905-1909
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Karl Barth was the most influential theologian of the twentieth century, and his work continues to inspire both fresh theological thinking and critical debate. The period covered by the volumes in this series–1905 to 1933 –saw Barth emerge from his training under such theological giants as Adolph von Harnack and Wilhelm Herrmann; assert his rejection of liberal Protestant theology in his towering commentary on Romans; and work through an earlier uncertainty to become a critic on theological grounds of the rise of Nazism. These volumes contain essays, lectures, academic papers, correspondences, editorials, and other writings that were not previously translated into English and that provide insight into the development of Barth's theology during this crucial period of his life.
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- Inspires both fresh theological thinking and critical debate.
- Provides insight into the development of Barth’s theology.
- Reveals religious reflections and nascent convictions of these early years.
The latest fruit of the collective labor of an industrious and committed group of skilled translators, this volume will provide English-language readers with new and direct insight into the very beginnings of Karl Barth’s theological existence. This is another fine and welcome contribution to theological scholarship from Westminster John Knox Press.
—Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen
This translation of Barth’s earliest works is to be welcomed. These lectures and essays provide, for the first time in English, a window into Barth’s earliest academic labors and theological formation. In light of all that would come, they bear witness not only to the beginning of his theological travels, but reveal how very far those travels would take him from the religious reflections and nascent convictions of these early years.
—Kimlyn J. Bender, Professor of Christian Theology, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University
Even as a student Barth wrote lengthy texts which show his theologically-pugnacious nature. It will be of great importance for English-speaking Barth-scholarship that these earliest documents of his theological development are now available in English translation.
—Christiane Tietz, Professor of Systematic Theology and Co-Director of the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zurich
- Title: The Early Barth: Lectures and Shorter Works, Volume 1, 1905-1909
- Author: Karl Barth
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Pages: 348
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9780664264383, 0664264387
- Resource ID: LLS:RLYBR1905190901
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-01-13T19:22:59Z
Karl Barth (May 10, 1886–December 10, 1968) was a twentieth-century Swiss theologian in the Reformed tradition. A vigorous opponent of theological liberalism and modernism, he is sometimes called “the Father of Neo-Orthodoxy.”