Translated by Grover Foley

Evangelical Theology: An Introduction

Karl Barth

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Grand Rapids Michigan

© 1963 Karl Barth

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Evangelical Theology: An Introduction was translated from the German text,

Einführung in die evangelische Theologie, published by EVZ-Verlag, Zürich.

First American edition published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

This edition published 1979 through special arrangement with

TVZ Verlag, Zürich by

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Barth, Karl, 1886-1968

Evangelical theology.

Translation of Einführung in die evangelische Theologie.

“The first five lectures of the volume were delivered under the auspices of the Divinity School, the University of Chicago, and were ‘The Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures of 1962’ at the Princeton Theological Seminary.”

Reprint of the 1st ed. Published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York.

1. Theology, Doctrinal — Introductions. I. Title

[BT65.B313 1979] 230 79-16735

ISBN 978-8028-1819-5

The first five lectures of this volume were delivered under the auspices of the Divinity School, the University of Chicago, and were “The Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures of 1962” at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

FOREWORD TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

Some weeks after I had concluded in Basel the writing and delivering of these lectures—and with them my academic career—I had the opportunity of shaking the dust of Basel from my feet and boarding an airplane which carried me from there in a high arch over Germany, Scotland, Greenland, and the icy wilderness of Labrador. In but a few hours it brought me, for the first time, to Chicago, into the very heart of that altogether different land which Europeans liked earlier to call, not without justification, “the new world.”

The present work, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction, will now appear in the United States in the English language. I delivered the first five of these lectures in Chicago and Princeton, and the first one also in Richmond and San Francisco, using an English manuscript which had been carefully prepared by Grover Foley (who likewise translated the whole book) and which was then again and again revised by my son Markus and myself.

I am happy now to be able to add a few somewhat personal words of remembrance, greetings, and thanks to the many old and new friends and brothers, both familiar and unfamiliar, whom I met during my stay in America. I was everywhere received and lodged by them in pleasant surroundings and with great hospitality, and they also heard and questioned me with great diligence and attention.

“How do you like that strange place called the United States?” This is what I was asked by a dusky theological colleague (not a Roman Catholic this time, but a literally black colleague) with a subtle smile, soon after my arrival in ...