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Church Dogmatics, Volume 5: Index, with Aids for the Preacher is unavailable, but you can change that!

Karl Barth, who lived from 1886–1968, was perhaps the most influential theologian of the 20th century. Church Dogmatics, Barth’s monumental life-work that consists of more than 6 million words, was written over the span of 35 years. In it, Barth covers in depth the great doctrines of the Word of God, God, Creation and Reconciliation. He made it his task “to take all that has been said before and...

what laborious research is needed. The General Index is designed to offer alleviation in this respect too. It contains exegetical and theological extracts assembled from the whole set of the Church Dogmatics and arranged in six series (I–VI) as preachers’ aids for the Christian year, so that some 400 meditations are provided based on Old or New Testament passages. Shortly before his death, in the radio broadcast “Music for a Guest,” Barth himself said: “My whole theology, you see, is fundamentally
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