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In this creative and original book, Paul S. Chung interprets Karl Barth as a theologian of divine action. Chung appreciates Barth's dogmatic theology as both contextual and irregular, and he retrieves the neglected sides of Barth's thought with respect to political radicalism, Israel, natural theology, and religious pluralism.

the Christian and the society cannot be separated from one another. Therefore, there should be no apartheid, no erecting of fences between Jews and Gentiles, the politically correct and the others, or between so-called Christians and so-called non-Christians. All are in Christ. As Barth remarks, “the community of Christ is a house open on every side; for Christ is always for the other, and he died even for those who are outside. There is in us, over us, behind us, beyond us—a consideration of the