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The Humanity of Christ: Christology in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Drawing on the best English and German language scholarship to date, this book offers a novel interpretation of Barth’s mature Christology. Examining the entirety of the Dogmatics, it provides a nuanced analysis of Barth’s treatment of the Chalcedonian Definition, the enhypostasis/anhypostasis pairing, and various Protestant scholastic Christological distinctions; an examination of the...

revelation arising out of revelation itself’ (I/2, p. 10), each doctrinal locus bears witness to its christological index. Thus the often-quoted claim that a ‘church dogmatics must … be christologically determined as a whole and in all its parts’ (I/2, p. 123). Perhaps, then, engaging the broad range of ‘christological perspectives’4 developed in the Dogmatics ought to trump any pursuit of Barth’s Christology as such. Might it be better to reckon with Barth’s appreciation for the capaciousness and
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