Overview
This classic volume of Barth’s essays was first published in 1924 under the title Das Wort Gottes und die Theologie. In this brand new English edition, along with each chapter, the entire critical apparatus is translated, including an explanatory passage giving general historical context and details of Barth’s own biography. These essays represent the very best of Barth’s work. Far from being superseded by the Church Dogmatics, this resource provides helpful insight into Barth’s theology.
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Key Features
- Investigates the doctrines of God and reconciliation
- Presents the best of Karl Barth’s work
- Provides helpful insight into Barth’s theology
Product Details
- Title: The Word of God and Theology
- Author: Karl Barth
- Editor: Amy Marga
- Translator: Amy Marga
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 2011
- Pages: 256
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Systematic Theology
About Karl Barth
Karl Barth (1886–1968), a Swiss Protestant theologian and pastor, was one of the leading thinkers of twentieth-century theology, described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. He helped to found the Confessing Church and his thinking formed the theological framework for the Barmen Declaration. He taught in Germany, where he opposed the Nazi regime. In 1935, when he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler, he was retired from his position at the University of Bonn and deported to Switzerland. There he continued to write and develop his theology.
Barth’s work and influence resulted in the formation of what came to be known as neo-orthodoxy. For Barth, modern theology, with its assent to science, immanent philosophy, and general culture and with its stress on feeling, was marked by indifference to the word of God and to the revelation of God in Jesus, which he thought should be the central concern of theology.
About Amy Marga
Amy Marga is assistant professor of systematic theology at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
