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Karl Barth’s monumental work, Church Dogmatics, is recognized as a landmark in Protestant theology—perhaps the most important work of this century. However, the size range of its fourteen volumes has meant that its content and significance may not be so widely known or appreciated as it deserves. In this concise introduction, Helmut Gollwitzer provides a selection of some of the most important...

science, an established anthropology, a presupposed philosophical system or some other given knowledge of God, reality and man, into the co-ordinated system of which the Christian revelation has to be fitted. Yet it was by this rejection at the end of the twenties, when he stood almost alone and broke with a two-thousand-year-tradition in Christian theology, that Barth established a bulwark against the specific adaptation of the Christian faith to the norms of a supposed Germanic race consciousness
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