more precisely, those students first in Bonn and then in Basel who were training to be pastors and teachers in the church. For Barth, therefore, theology is not primarily a discipline in the academy, but a discipline of the church. Certainly, Barth self-consciously located himself and his work within a particular church tradition—Protestant and Reformed. However, the substance of his work not only draws on but also speaks to the church universal. Church Dogmatics, then, is not a theology for one