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Karl Barth and Evangelical Theology explores the convergences and divergences between the theology of Karl Barth and historic evangelical faith, and on that basis presents ways for evangelicals to dynamically engage with Barth’s theology. It is a balanced appraisal of Barth’s theology from a solidly evangelical perspective and features contributions by many leading theologians, including Alister...

Bible speak to us.”19 Barth’s concept of revelation was unintelligible to the extent that Barth failed to identify the event of revelation with the verbal statements of the Bible. For Henry, to say the Bible is the Word of God is to affirm divine revelation as verbal and conceptual. Revelation is “propositional”: God makes his mind, and hence truth, known in the words of Scripture. He complains that Barth, by contrast, locates revelation (and hence truth?) in “the stratosphere of superhistory.”20
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