the ontological trinity in Christian theology. Existenz philosophy may be said to be roughly similar to American Pragmatism. 6. Theology of the Word—Barth The survey of the philosophical schools that have influenced the Theology of Crisis either positively or negatively is now complete. The broadest and most general background is the critical philosophy of Kant. The concepts of dialecticism, of primal history and of existentialism are but specialized forms of Kantian criticism. It has also been shown