The period of cultural upheaval after World War I called for new beginnings in theology. In August 1914, ninety-three German intellectuals signed a document supporting the German Kaiser’s imperialistic war effort. A disgusted Karl Barth found the names of most of his theology professors on the document. Liberalism had displayed its true colors as the form of Christian theology that fully grants the claims of modernity.1 Barth’s public break with
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