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Jesus Is Victor!: Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Salvation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Karl Barth’s theology is both challenging and disconcerting to those who stand in the tradition of Protestant evangelicalism. Yet his theological method presents a solid alternative to both rationalism and mysticism that dominate much current theology. With striking clarity, Donald G. Bloesch analyzes Barth’s theology, placing special emphasis on his doctrine of salvation. Barth holds that...

Where Barth’s soteriology stands in most obvious tension with that of historical evangelical orthodoxy is in its objectivism. He affirms that all men are elected by God and adopted into sonship in his eternal decree that comes to historical realization in Jesus Christ. All are predestined to salvation in Christ even before the dawning of history, even before the primordial fall of man.1 Moreover, all persons are created in Christ, and creation itself is an irrefragable
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