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Van Til writes in the Preface, “The present writer is of the opinion that, for all its verbal similarity to historic Protestantism, Barth’s theology is, in effect, a denial of it. There is, he believes, in Barth’s view no ‘transition from wrath to grace’ in history. This was the writer’s opinion in 1946 when he published The New Modernism. A careful consideration of Barth’s more recent writings...

Feuerbach. Theologians had sought in the historical Jesus some measure of objectivity. But “something absolute as a part of world and of human history as such is a sword of lath. Strauss’ book made this very plain and well understood, and those who read it were shaken to the core, for it was precisely upon the card of history that they had staked no less than half their means, the other half being on that of religious consciousness. The situation was such that in running away from Feuerbach they
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